Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, atomic energy was no exception to a pre-atomic rule: those who had the power favored keeping it; those who lacked it favored sharing...
...real scramble for power will come in the Navy. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of the Pacific Fleet, is still four years short of retirement age, wants the COMINCH job. The Fifth Fleet's quiet, hard-working Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, 59, is also a leading candidate. Navy "radicals" (i.e., proponents of a break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean...
...tell whether war or peace is in sight: if women's fashions favor wide hips and slender waists (as in the Nineties), everything is O.K. "Curves signify contentment," he said; "the vertical line expresses discontent." He found Paris' trend to high hats and short skirts "obviously danger signs...
This week at Wrigley Field, Grimm & Co. face the first of a dozen tough games with the second-place Cardinals. If the Cubs come through, there is little chance of their being stopped short of the World Series...
...legs they were short...