Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned from Europe pleased but not complacent. In Paris, the West had held its own against Russian diplomacy. Acheson came home to find the other side of the world-Asia-in need of quick attention...
...parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure has been built up, Acheson said, the Foreign Ministers' meetings show what the gains or losses in each side's position have been...
Sabath shook his head: seven minutes was all he could spare. Before anyone realized what was up, "Goober" Cox called Sabath a "liar," swung at him with his right hand, clouted him on the side of the head and sent his glasses spinning...
...bounced right up again to 163.78. The market showed enough bounce, in fact, to make some Wall Streeters wonder whether, after months of sliding, it had finally reached its bottom. No one could yet say for sure, but some fence-sitting traders began to teeter towards the bull side...
...27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded, the Bismarck was hit again & again. Destroyers and cruisers banged away; torpedoes hit her; her guns went silent. By 10 o'clock she was aflame and crewmen could be seen going over the side, but her flag still flew; she would not sink and would not surrender. Then, at 10:36, from only 2,500 yards, the cruiser Dorsetshire hit her with a last torpedo. Her colors still flying, the mighty Bismarck rolled over and went down, a few hours less than six days from...