Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of his staff listened, Bridges blandly argued that he had never followed the Communist line; he had only done what seemed best for his longshoremen. C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey, 37, unable to contain himself, yelled: "You're a goddam liar, Bridges." A few minutes later, Harry put on his hat and left...
...Navy brass went on rebelling after unification of the armed services, however imperfect, became fact. In the end, a group of their most ardent officers rashly strove to put the Navy above the dictates of the Government. Last week the inevitable crash occurred. President Harry Truman, acting with brutal directness, removed the service's highest-ranking officer, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, as Chief of Naval Operations...
...people in the small cities and the small towns. Incidentally he argued how important he thought it was for him to go back to the Senate ("I am the most formidable single opponent that the Russians have"), but principally he lambasted a political philosophy which he said would put the U.S. people "on leash from birth to death to a federal bureaucracy...
Says Jane's, which is authoritative though unofficial: "The Soviet government has taken over and put to good use German experimental establishments, factories, plant, equipment, designs and experimental prototypes . . . Virtually the whole of the Junkers plant has been reestablished in Russia. An experimental development section of the company is located . . . 100 miles to the north of Moscow, and its main production unit is at Kuibyshev [on the middle Volga] . . . Here, it is reported . . . large-scale production of an Ilyushin bomber is being undertaken...
...cheerleaders, who have been developing their tumbling skills for the past three weeks in a private gymnasium, have been forbidden to put on a demonstration between the halves on Saturday, because it "detractsz from the band." They will show off their new routines at the quarters...