Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Truman Democrats' side, the argument was that hardly any of the budget items really could be touched. The biggest outlay, a total of $32 billion, Harry Truman said, was for wars, past and future. The U.S., already in the red a quarter of a trillion dollars, would plunge anywhere from $3 billion to $8 billion deeper in the red by the end of this fiscal year...
...fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes no difference if it's five or ten years-Pirogov will be back in the Soviet Union. I will watch you swing in Moscow's Red Square...
Evenings had turned cool, and the call of the whippoorwill came sharp and insistent across fields fat with Indiana's richest harvest in years. At Walter Barbour's 232-acre farm outside Indianapolis, baskets of sun-ripened peaches and big red tomatoes crowded the fruit sheds. In the orchards, the trees sagged under the weight of their reddening apples. Barbour had no idea how many bushels hung on the trees: "All I know is that there couldn't be any more apples in there than what's on the trees right...
Last week, four years after VJ, the U.S. could well ask: "Isn't this where we came in?" From Red reports, it looked more & more as though the rich, strategic land of Manchuria had become another Russian satellite...
...last week, General Electric's big, genial President Charles E. Wilson returned to his office to find 50 red roses in a basket beside his desk. "My favorite flower," he murmured, thumbing through them for a card. When he found one, from a Chicago bank, he was obviously touched. "Why," said Wilson, "they aren't even customers of ours...