Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt got across two points: 1) such governments, even when broadened, will have only "provisional" approval until the peoples concerned have a chance to vote; 2) territorial settlements, including the new Poland's slice of east Germany, will not be made final until after...
Canadian public officials are not well paid, even by Canadian standards. Prime Minister King gets $21,000* ($15.000 as Prime Minister, $4,000 as a member of Parliament, $2,000 in tax-free car allowance). Wartime taxes take a fat slice (an estimated $15,000) of what he does get. Yet Mr. King did not particularly need the Mulock legacy. Few Canadians realize that their Prime Minister is a fairly well-heeled...
...This slice of Churchillian rhetoric was not necessarily an overstatement. If the invasion failed, the waste of time and effort, of men and material, would be incalculable, almost too staggering even to contemplate. If it failed, Russia might be so discouraged as to seek a separate peace with Hitler. In that case, when the western Allies were ready to mount another invasion, in 1946 or 1947, they would find three or four hundred German divisions manning the Atlantic Wall instead...
...once had. In the interim, Britain had guided his affairs of state, protected his frontiers, helped restore his war-torn towns, even put down tribal rebellions. There were also disturbing whispers that Britain was planning to mold a Greater Somaliland out of British and Italian Somaliland, with a slice of Ethiopia included. Haile Selassie wanted less help in managing his own affairs...
...life somehow becomes a champagne bucket of ashes. Her husband loves her, yet leaves her; her refugee swain loves her, yet has a girl in every flat. Seeking to blend Park Avenue with poignancy, brittle talk with amorous bruises, In Bed We Cry is much less a slice of life than a setup for an actress who wants to do everything from scintillate to suffer...