Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second-floor balcony windows, the sound of scores of stamping feet and the melody of a rousing polka carried into the silent street. Beyond the curtained windows, in one of eleven rooms brilliant under crystal chandeliers, the hundreds of Berlin's international set were being greeted by a short, thin man in uniform. His perfectly bald head with a wiggly scar on one side distracted their gaze from his soft brown eyes. He was Major General Jacob Prawin, chief of the Polish military mission. The occasion for celebration in this very unfestive city was Poland's Liberation...
When he runs, Patton's face becomes a study in desperation- teeth gritted, eyes squinted. He is the opposite of Charley Paddock, who was what trackmen call a "driver." Because of Paddock's high knee action and short back kick, people some times swore that "he ran sitting down." Patton, whose legs revolve' with a smooth wheel-like motion, is a "floater...
...cause of these high jinks was an abrupt settlement of an issue that had plagued Curtiss-Wright Corp. for months. The company had come out of the war with a mattressfull of money-$100 million-but it was short of postwar business. The management, which thought there was only a "limited and unprofitable" postwar market for its aircraft engines and planes, wanted to hold the cash to tide the company over the uncertain future. But a group of vociferous stockholders last winter complained that the cash in the mattress alone was about three times the market value of its stock...
...feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...
...father and farmer, Tolstoy at 35 seemed destined to end up merely as an eccentric squire. But, increasingly, wrote Tatyana, "the question 'What is all this for?' began to torment him." Spells of rage and self-reproach interrupted "an almost bourgeois happiness." He had already published several short stories and novelettes (The Cossacks) and a book of reminiscences (Childhood, Boyhood & Youth); now he yearned for what he called "leisurely work de longue haleine [of a long-winded kind...