Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retirement ceremonies were as spare and simple as the General himself. He made a short farevell speech, attended a reception, held a housewarming at the two-story, white stucco Wainwright house in San Antonio (named "Fiddler's Green," after the mythical heaven to which the souls of all cavalrymen are supposed to go).* Then it was all over. "Skinny" Wainwright was a civilian...
...trilled madly as Legionnaires decoyed harried truck drivers to the curb. One night, hundreds of shirt-sleeved Legionnaires hung out the windows of the Taft and Victoria Hotels, fired barrages of water-filled paper bags across 51st Street at each other, howled with vulgar glee as the missiles fell short and plummeted into the crowd below...
...producing western Germany that could 1) pay for itself and 2) contribute more coal, machinery, and other exports toward general European recovery. There would, however, be no immediate miracles; experts thought it would take until 1951, even with good luck, to reach the 10.7 million ton ceiling in food-short, materials-short Germany...
...Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth and General MacArthur all died at once, Americans would not feel the loss as poignantly as millions of Spaniards and their cousins felt the death of Manuel Rodriguez-Manolete, the bullfighter. Hard as Americans might find it to understand, the story of his short life will be long and reverently remembered in the Spanish-speaking world...
Great Expectations. Rife with old suspicions and enmities, tired, discouraged and uncertain of their leaders, the miners were in a sense symbolic of all Britons. "Never," said the Times of London in its grimmest attack on the Government to date, "has a ministry fallen so far short of pent-up expectations as Mr. Attlee's Government." The people of Britain, added the News Chronicle, "are tired of walking downhill in the dark...