Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most satisfying moment the office had last year came when a woman walked in with a postal card. It was from the concentration camp in Poland where her husband was interned and it was written in Polish. She spoke only French. A quick look through the files and Holt phoned a student language expert, who translated it from Polish to English. A second man was called to put it into French...
Europe's leftist press-and by many other papers. U.S. newsmen in Paris became curious. A quick check showed that some overeager beaver in Moscow had committed a prize boner. The map in question was entitled: "War Map III, featuring the Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
...authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded in the leg, lay on his back before Frau Lehrte's house. Germans clustered around him and stared at the Russian's abandoned motorcycle...
...through the middle for 14 yards and another touchdown. He relied on cutbacks and shiftiness rather than sheer speed. Said one blocker: "It's easy to block for Charlie, because he sets up the blocks." Choo Choo had an uncanny photographic eye that enabled him to get a quick picture of a broken field defense. He accounted for Carolina's third and game-winning touchdown by taking a punt on his own 16-yd. line and squirming 84 yards down the sidelines. Final score: North Carolina 21, Georgia...
...haste to protect farmers from this latest evil of free competition, the U.S. planned a quick conference with Canada. It hoped to restrict shipments of Canadian potatoes-and hoped no one would ask how this fitted loud U.S. talk of freer world trade...