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Word: slating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith won the commission seat one year ago at the time of his election to an NSA vice-presidency. Last month the NSA Madison Convention renamed him for the coming UNESCO term and the commission's nominating committee promptly placed him on the slate of six it will push for vacant executives committee spots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Sends Grad Student To UNESCO Parley Today | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Moon. Following army spearheads the next day, the observation group visited Markos' former capital, Aetomilitsa, a typical mountain village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Nike! | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...this week, tattooed Joe had a triple knockout. Badly beaten were Vice President Howard McKenzie and onetime Vice President Frederick ("Blackie") Myers, both Communists; and Ferdinand Christopher Smith, national secretary, a Jamaican Negro whom the Government is trying to deport as a Communist (TIME, Feb. 23). Joe's slate also ousted all left-wingers from the union's national council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Clean Sweep | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...into which the convention broke were Romita's anti-Communists (27%), Nenni's proCommunists (31%), and an aimless, sullen middle-of-the-road group which wanted to avoid the unavoidable decision (42%). The middle-of-the-roaders won, but not before the pro-Communist party secretary, bearded, slate-eyed Lelio Basso, had told them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Pallbearers Wore Pink | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Painting the roof slate grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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