Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen. George Marshall and his new Under Secretary of State, Robert Lovett, talked fast in a private session with Speaker Joe Martin, Taber and other congressional leaders. They laid out all the details of the State Department's plans for spending almost $1.5 billion, down to the last round of machine-gun ammunition the Greeks would get. Then Bob Lovett, in another closed meeting, confronted John Taber and his Appropriations Committee members. Lovett showed them secret intelligence reports about Greece, emphasized his own fears of what would happen in Europe and the rest of the world...
...Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took the long way round to Australia. It was flown across the Atlantic in a British diplomatic pouch to prevent its being opened and spoiled by unsympathetic customs...
...between Dutch and Javanese began in Indonesia (see below). China got ready for a new round of her long civil war. In Burma and Korea political assassination effaced leaders who had been among new Asia's best...
...shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under the eyes of everyone there." Old Jim Horner has a topper to that finish; he claims that before they had traveled back to Wales, Arthur had converted...
News that terminal leave bonds can be cashed by September 1 may raise an itch on the palm of the veteran, but something more like a furrow on the brow of the professorial economist. Two members of the Economics Department here saw the government move yesterday as another round in the inflation spiral...