Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply pictured Stalin as deeply hurt because the U.S. had cut off Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin was ready to be friends again if the U.S. 1) abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with Russia and sparked it off with a $2 billion loan...
...stockpile should be an impressive 1,000,000 tons. But that did not change the fact that last week 200,000 of West Berlin's 2,500,000 people were out of jobs, or that the list of business bankruptcies was lengthening. The U.S. Military Government, demanding a "return to business normalcy," had canceled aid to Berlin from EGA counterpart funds...
...Poppy & the Cricket. The fiesta committee scored its most resounding triumph with the return of the Bersaglieri, the proudest troops of Italy. The Bersaglieri wear plumes of cock feathers in their caps, run instead of march, and in Trastevere, which always had its own regiment, have been a tradition for almost 100 years. Since World War II, however, Trastevere's regiment had been quartered in Milan. With the opening of this year's feast, the first units of the old Trastevere Bersagliere regiment came home, ran heroically through the twisting streets blowing bugles while exuberant Trasteverini welcomed them...
...Bourse du Travail, a dark-haired Lanvin girl excitedly waved her pay envelope, showing 6,138 francs (about $18) for two weeks' work, and yelled: "I've got to support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front of one shop, a bunch of pickets gleefully embraced amused gendarmes, cheerfully exchanged au revoirs and à bientôts as the gendarmes left their posts for lunch...
...James Sonnett Greene received his first patient: a youth of 20 who stuttered. Between agonizing pauses and machine-gun bursts of repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties in medical school. He told the patient to return in a few days; he would try to find out what could be done. But the boy did not come back. He killed himself...