Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When President Harry Truman starts talking off the cuff, his advisers are never sure whether he's going to wind up with a blast at Wall Street or a side remark that sets his State Department to explaining that U.S. policy on Russia is unchanged. But when he dropped in at the Statler Hotel one night last week for a little off-the-cuff talk at a National Planning Association dinner, the President was all primed with a theme to suit his audience...
...right side of the crowded hearing room last week sat representatives of U.S. industry; on the left, representatives of the nation's unions. Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson. The expression on her face was a gauge of the battle's progress. Most of the time Martha Taft looked as if she thought it was going all right...
Lange's trip to Washington impressed on him the hard central fact of Norway's situation-that Norway is such a fine potential plane and submarine base that neither side feels it can afford to let the other side control her. The exchange of notes is not mere diplomatic mumbo-jumbo but a part of the suppressed...
Doughnuts in the Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm...
...almost hear the little men planning it: "Now we come to this Orleans scene, see. It's gonna be a tremendous battl', flaming arrows, charging horses, our side losing with spears going clear through guys in front of the camera; it'll be better than 'Fort Apache.''' Another voice: '''Fort Apache,' hell. 'Unconquered' will look like a scramble for peanuts compared to this." First voice: "Right! And through it all there'll stand Ingrid all in white, waving her men on with her flag and a different colored sunset behind her for each shot." Second voice again...