Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sobersided Congressmen reported the temper of the people: Congress should retain every bit of its hard-won independence, but should use its new power to work with the President for the common good...
...Regular meetings of the stewards for this purpose, with no attempts to retain trade secrets, would undoubtedly improve the over-all picture of the dining room," concludes the group, criticizing the stewards...
...more the professor spoke the more poignant became "the call of the wild." After several hilarious minutes the lecturer, who all this time was trying his utmost to retain his dignity, decided that he'd had enough competition for one morning, and proceeded to take steps to eject the canine from the room...
...avoid another possible Versailles. Germany might get such a peace by ousting the Nazis and on fairly easy terms if Stalin would accept the kind of democratic-capitalist regime urged by the Free German Committee in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 2). A peace allowing the German State to retain an army and to rebuild its economy, a peace along the endless, abrasive eastern front, would be by no means unattractive to millions of Germans, even to some conservatives and some of the military. To the Nazis and to those tarred with Naziism, such a peace offered no hope. The question...
...other hand, there are some more energetic characters who have displayed Spartan disregard for physical wear and gear, and also revealed the urge common to all hero worshippers to retain souvenirs of their idols. As a result, our door is reduced to a couple of loose hinges and half a door knob (highly polished, nevertheless...