Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles still had a vast supply of its most precious and vital commodity-water. It drew 255 million gallons a day from the Owens River. With its adjoining towns it sucked too million gallons through a 392-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River; despite the bitter interstate dispute between California and Arizona over the river's output, Los Angeles expected to tap the Colorado more freely in the future...
...hands began to move. Hour after hour she tried to explain. She had not slept with Shapiro, a young lawyer in the Department of Justice. He was just a friend in the office. They had gone to Baltimore to buy Judy a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia still looking for a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia to see a show. She had been sick on New Year's Eve. She had gone to the apartment to be sick and sleep. "You branded me as a spy and now you are trying to brand...
...Still robed in his prestige, little Justice Frankfurter left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...
...Russians had agreed to pay the strikers 60% of their wages in West marks; now the Western powers agreed to convert the remaining 40% into West marks out of West Berlin tax receipts. They also obtained a Russian promise that there would be no reprisals against strikers. Many still feared Russian revenge. Said one engineer: "Give...
...Tough Decision. This week, after the votes were counted, Leopold's chances of returning home were still doubtful. The Catholics missed by three votes the 107 needed for a clear majority of the Lower Chamber. Probably more than three Liberals would be willing to join with them in voting for a plebiscite on Leopold. The Catholics, however, would rather govern in continued coalition with the Socialists (66 deputies) than with the Liberals (30 deputies). On the whole, the election represented an anti-Marxist swing. The rightist Liberal Party made the largest gain, and the Communists suffered the sharpest loss...