Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...
...citizens wondered why there was a meat shortage. The welkin rang with name-calling and charges of avarice and Government bungling. The few facts that could be dug out of the row were startling. Some of them...
...Chastened by the row over the secret voting deal, Secretary Stettinius now let it be known that there had been one other big topic at Yalta not mentioned in the communiqué: the question of trusteeship of colonies and liberated areas. On this there would probably be a wide split of opinion among U.S. citizens, as there was certain to be between the U.S. on one side and Britain and France on the other. The U.S. Navy, for one, made its position clear last week (see Postwar). All Ed Stettinius would say was that there would be a Big Five...
...nation's capital there was a damper on this mood of hope. Three sudden events-the make-up of the Russian delegation to San Francisco, the disclosure of the secret Yalta voting agreement, and the inter-Allied row over the Lublin Poles (see INTERNATIONAL)-had thrown official Washington into a slough of despond. In the State Department, there was open talk of postponing the San Francisco Conference. This mood would probably unkink itself, but San Francisco no longer seemed a foregone happy conclusion. The war was unmistakably being won. But what of the peace...
General Clay, who had the most fun of his life straightening out the supply muddle at Cherbourg last fall, remained above the Washington row. This week he happily packed his bags, got ready to report to General Eisenhower. The complete soldier, he was glad to go to Germany to see things through...