Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic energy, added Tass casually, Vyacheslav Molotov had announced back in 1947, when he was still Foreign Minister, that Russia had mastered its secret...
Britain's decision to devalue the pound came so fast that Western Europe's statesmen are still muttering angrily about not having been consulted. Last week London's respected Daily Telegraph told a detailed story of how the decision was reached...
...alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
...Wonderful Team." From 11:17 that sunny morning, the supreme law in Western Germany became the Occupation Statute, a sort of interim peace treaty drafted by the Allies last spring (TIME, April 18). It gives the Germans wide scope for self-government, although the high commissioners still keep important powers over foreign affairs, demilitarization, decartelization and D.P.s...
...dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...