Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gomulka's invitation. He said: "Our party is and will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive no, the Socialists rejected Gomulka's suggestion...
Under the plan sent to Congress by Harry Truman, the U.S., in effect, would supply dollars to Europe to buy goods from Latin America. The plan provided that Latins shoulder part of the trade deficit themselves by grants and credits to Europe. But U.S. dollars spent in dollar-short Latin America on goods for Europe might total as much as $300 million a year...
Beachcomber is no great shakes on looks. Unlike most greyhounds, he has a short tail that curls up at the tip. But he has all the breed's other characteristics: uncanny hearing, remarkable eyesight, a not too highly developed sense of smell. His owner, Paul Sutherland, a 43-year-old ex-butcher from Tulsa, expects to gross $40,000 this year. Says he: "Like all good dogs . . . Beachcomber's got brains...
...grads, like old grads everywhere, had no use for a loser-and their memories were short. In 1939, Homer had been a hero at A. & M. He had a wonder team that year, starring "Jarrin' Jawn" Kimbrough, which was voted the nation's best. In five years, his Aggies had played in four Bowl games. Box office was good at the campus stadium. Last year, when old grads began yelling for his scalp, Homer, who has coached at Texas A. & M. for 14 years, calmly told them to put up or shut up; his $10,000-a-year...
...within a whisker (9,000,000 miles), it stayed for the most part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible for a short time just after the sun had set, showing almost as bright as Venus, with a tail 50 million miles long. For northern hemisphere lookers, it Was a daytime comet: it was there but no one couid...