Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes. Ten State Department employees have been discharged as "bad security risks." The Department's press office said, "This does not necessarily concern the loyalty of the individuals, but may refer to his discretion or the company he keeps." A few days later, a high U. S. court rules against proceeding with a trial of the score of Americans indicted during the war as pre-fascist seditionists, claiming it would be a travesty on justice...
...companies, but not when the individual was Gulbenkian; he was an old hand at it. For more than a quarter of a century, his legendary figure has flitted through Middle Eastern oil deals. Bald, beak-nosed and now 79, Gulbenkian is such a well-known operator that oilmen refer to him simply as "G." Despite two wars and slippery international oil politics, G has managed to hang on to his 5% interest in Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd., which has brought him a fortune variously estimated at $200 to $800 million and annual royalties of some...
American historians often refer to 1816 as the "era of good feeling," with reference to President Monroe's bipartisan election. Harvard chronicles of that year substitute the word "numb," more frequently when the thermometer on August 29 registered 37 degrees...
...unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began to refer to their telephone chats as "blitz calls...
...students of engineering and physics . . . comprehend and appreciate the statics of the system, but we are at a loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...