Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman's short sentence brought from Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, also on the Foreign Relations Committee, a statement that U.S. control of some Pacific areas should not be hampered even by trusteeships...
...fifth inning with a one run lead, but in that frame things blew apart. Bob Batten started things off with a long single to right field, moving to third on Bill Postman's best to left. Then came the big blow. With Don Swegan pulled out of position at short to cover second, Charlie Stephenson pushed a neat hit through the place vacated by the shortstop; Batten and Pohlman raced around to score before left fielder Allen could come up with the ball. Stephenson tried to stretch his him, and Wallace, who had finally got the ball from Allen, tried...
...were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about it to justify the investment...
...Matabele, a savage offshoot of the Zulu tribe, named their warrior king Lobengula ("He Who Drives Like the Wind"). But by 1880 the fat, short-winded monarch preferred to lie on his bed toying with the stolen diamonds he kept in a couple of kerosene cans, while his wives covered his naked body with gold sovereigns...
...kept on signing concessions until the mounted police appeared in Matabeleland, "incidents" occurred and blood was shed. Finally the Matabele, armed with short stabbing-spears, hurled themselves against murderous lines of rifles and Maxims. Lobengula wrote his last letter to Queen Victoria: "Your Majesty, what I want to know from you is; why do your people kill me?" Six months later, his bodyguard buried his exhausted, dropsy-wasted body...