Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written about George Marshall, but even to his own countrymen he was more a figure than an intimately known personality -a homely, reassuring man with compressed, unsmiling lips and deep-set, searching eyes, a man who was curiously unimpassioned and unimpressive when heard on the radio. As Chief of Staff of the Army, he had established a reputation for brilliance. Congressmen and others who dealt with him in Washington also knew him as a man of stubborn, unswerving honesty-a good man. His countrymen generally knew him as admirable and let it go at that...
...divided and warring India our New Delhi bureau was having "no (repeat no) Christmas celebration." In Tokyo, TIME Inc.'s staff was forbidden by occupation directives to share food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas...
...Rarely that It Pleases." "It is essential," Sir Stafford Cripps told the House sternly, "that he [Philip] should have an adequate income . . .not only to provide for his personal staff, charities, and matters of that kind . . . but also that he may enjoy a proper degree of independence. The figure of ?10,000 . . . is customary for the younger.son of a king." Sir Stafford doubted that Britons would want to economize on royalty. One might as well, he concluded, suggest dispensing with the royal horses because "they Cost ?15,000 or whatever it is . . . but I venture to think if someone were...
...made from a big steel cylinder with a fan blowing dry air into it, past an outside battery of electric grids. The human guinea pig is wheeled in, reclining in a canvas chair and festooned with electric thermometers. The first experiments were rather cautious; then Taylor and his staff increased the temperature in the hotbox until it passed the boiling point of water (212° F). The victims came out uncooked and not permanently damaged...
...other TWAsters found nothing humorous in his trips. Wherever Cohu stopped, employees usually got fired. Cohu merged TWA's four regional headquarters into one office and trimmed the airline's swollen staff of 15,000 by 13%. As costs went down and traffic rose, TWA's deficit was turned into a profit of $202,000 in this year's second quarter...