Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoidance of future wars is too important to be in the sole custody of any one man, of any one group, or of any one party...
Back in Kansas City, with a war buddy, he opened a haberdashery on Kansas City's Twelfth Street, across from the Muehlebach Hotel. This sole business venture crashed resoundingly, leaving Truman with $15,000 in debts, which he was still paying off 14 years later...
Shoes. Green canvas leggings, usually prescribed, chafe so badly in the steaming jungle that troops on the march throw them away, tuck their pants legs into their socks. The canvas jungle boot, which may also be worn, does not chafe but its rubber sole provides no arch support on long marches. The eventual solution may be a boot-shoe with nylon uppers and cleated rubber sole-if a way can be found to make the cleats stay...
...wish you to know," he went on, "that I have received orders from my Führer to fight to the last man and that is what I intend to do. The sole reason for suggesting this truce is to find a way of evacuating the civilian population...
Bankhead's efforts to squeeze the last penny of profit out of wartime cotton prices actually means nothing less than socialization of the cotton growers. For the Government may well become the sole buyer of their crops, the arbiter of price, and the dictator of production. Even the hardest-boiled cotton grabber would admit that under this act and its accompanying policy, free markets and free trading have gone a-glimmering-for as long as the policy lasts...