Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pronounce all that, read the umlauts as in Norwegian, and bite the "i" and short "a" sounds and the terminal "ahs" as in Nord-Deutsch...
...before the convention was over, the Reds showed at least one sign of growing weakness. Though they rammed through resolutions opposing the election of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey, they stopped short of a formal pledge to Henry Wallace. Explained President Albert Fitzgerald frankly: "No presidential candidate we could endorse here today could have any other effect than to split the organization wide open...
...applause greeting Schmid's announcement was cut short by long, lean Max Reimann, one of the two Communists elected to the assembly. His suit, shirt and tie were a symphony in grey. From a pink sheet of paper he read: "I wish to put forward this resolution: It is resolved that this assembly halt its deliberations on a separate West German constitution and disband immediately. This assembly violates the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam...
...probed into the personal motives of the Founding Fathers themselves, suggested that as men of property they had been privately interested in a charter that would protect their own wealth. To older historians, such an approach was blasphemous. Harvard's grizzled Albert Bushnell Hart declared the book "little short of indecent...
Each contestant will read a short speech containing key words: oyster, oil, saw, idea, Long Island. Presumably, the girl who most consistently approximates erster, erl, sawr, idear and lonGUYland will be the winner...