Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montana range, rattlesnakes were unusually plentiful, and the old men predicted a long warm fall and a short easy winter...
...huge American Crystal Sugar Co. refinery. Lucy was the more spectacular sight. She wore bright, low-cut silk dresses from which her slatlike collarbones protruded, and she affected picture hats and high-heeled shoes. Her wigs were her pride -she had a long, black, wavy one, a short, straight, bobbed one, and for special occasions a shoulder-length...
Jimmy Byrnes read a short statement: "This is a memorable day for the peace-loving peoples of all nations." A handful of reporters in the State Department's press room took cursory notes. Photographers snapped a few pictures. The Secretary of State signed a bulky, historic document. In two minutes it was all over, and the United Nations Organization was a legal reality...
...British, who came to Washington in hopes of an interest-free loan and who looked upon ^ of i% as the maximum interest, the terms were little short of catastrophic...
...Short Circuit. In Salt Lake City, escaping convicts Jack Allen and David Duvall threw a switch to cut off the prison's electric power, sounded the general alarm instead, trapped themselves...