Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This postwar program, of course, hasn't been settled on at all-except in generalities. As he had said about the meetings in Teheran and in Cairo, we are still in the generality stage, not in the detail stage, because we are still talking only about principles...
Said Cordell Hull: Yes, if all the peoples in the United Nations (and particularly those behind the front lines) redouble their support, and if they promote a greater state of unity in their cooperative efforts, the European war might end at some such stage as General Eisenhower had suggested. But even so, concluded the Secretary, we should not become too optimistic...
From the bleak altiplano of Bolivia, the revolt of the traffic cops (TIME, Jan. 3) strutted out on a world stage. It sent a chill of apprehension throughout all Latin America. It scared the U.S. State Department into unseemly confusion. It even touched, lightly, the relations between Soviet Russia and the Americas...
...play ended and the actors left the theater. Half an hour later the stage was in flames. The scenery was ruined. The premiere was postponed. The cast was arrested. Later all except Ording were released, and rehearsals resumed with Lars Nordrum in Ording's part. Two days before the new première, Nordrum vanished...
Three Men had bypassed their future. Benito Mussolini was the Man of the Year-of a special sort. He had contributed heavily toward the sanity of the world; the bullying menace that ended with pie all over his face. What had entered the stage so pompously, dressed to "live like a lion," now fell through the trapdoor in truest slapstick fashion. For a while, the trains had arrived on time, and then the plane came almost too late...