Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After all the fuss & feathers in and over WPB, one fact seemed finally to be dawning on its men: WPB was in no position to risk a showdown within its own organization or with the armed services-nor could it take sole responsibility for running...
...calling for a civil-disobedience campaign last August which set off a mass outburst. Lord Linlithgow held Gandhi legally responsible for the deaths that had occurred, the damage done. In the Viceroy's words, Gandhi's fast was "political blackmail"; as such it was Gandhi's "sole responsibility." This was the official British view. Any weakening of this position, setting Gandhi free-and thus permitting him to break his fast -would be an admission that the British were wrong. If the British stuck to their point (and Gandhi died) the result might be an immediate cataclysm...
...sole purchaser of the Phillies. He heads a syndicate which includes nine other businessmen willing to take a chance...
...maintain it as a voice for leftism; 2) she hoped to make it selfsupporting. Her new plan: to transfer the magazine's ownership from The Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that she has no chance of a personal profit...
...only one pair of pants with their uniform, put on that one pair to go on liberty the week-end before they heard they had been selected to come to Harvard. The turned in their undress bell- bottoms the first of that following week and remained clad in their sole pair of dress trousers. The still...