Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought of him as primarily a placator or referee of jealous, bickering commanders, a benevolent military chairman of the board, will have to revise their estimate. A lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army when the infantry waded ashore in Africa (though a lieutenant general by wartime rank), Ike really ran the show...
...Warsaw was summoned by a phone call to Moscow. Stalin wanted even more Polish territory than the Curzon Line gave him. Molotov saw the Poles first. He tried to soothe them by saying they could send their shipping from the landlocked Polish port of Elbing through a channel that ran near Konigsberg into the Bay of Danzig. Then the party went to Stalin's office for his approval...
Though both Nanking and Shanghai were temporarily quiet, the situation in both remained explosive. Already violence flared at Shanghai's exits. As soon as a train backed up to the North Station, a tidal wave of people ran down the platform and surged over the train, filling it up within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously...
...Time, Gentlemen." From time to time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
...Tabu perfume," printers at the Detroit News last week mixed 40 Ibs. of perfume oil with their printer's ink. The heady scent drifted out of the press room and into editorial and advertising offices, where it lingered lovingly on staffers' clothes and hair. The News ran its air-conditioning system full-blast but the smell hung on for two days. The disenchanted advertising manager grumped: "This newspaper plant smells like a bawdy house. I'm afraid to go home tonight...