Word: restedness
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The Ultimate Responsibility. It was Harry Truman who had to make the final, terrible decision.* But "the ultimate responsibility for the recommendation to the President rested upon me, and I have no desire to veil it."
The prosecution at Tokyo's International Military Tribunal for the Far East rested its case last week. The defense went through the formality of a motion for dismissal, then buckled down to the task of defending the 26 Japanese in the dock (including. ex-Prime Minister Tojo and ex...
General George Marshall had stayed on in Honolulu until the last minute, taking it easy, soaking up the sun, reading three or four books a day. The ten-day vacation had done him a world of good. When he stepped out of his big C-54 at Burbank's...
The technique used involved a specially contrived hocked instrument, which "fished" the $90 note out through the slit. This method, he conjectured, would be particularly effective if the check rested on a stack of Christmas cards and other uncollected Yuletide communications.
As the New Year opened, the survival of Western democracy rested, at bottom, on the case the U.S. would make for it; on a strong, stable and friendly America depended the stability of the Western world. This week, as the U.S. Congress prepared to convene, the world watched with hope...