Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suite A on the 37th floor of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, one of the postwar era's longest, most secretive conferences was entering its third year. High above Park Avenue, the deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been trying to write a peace treaty for Austria. Last week, as they moved into their green leather chairs for their 238th meeting, some news filtered out of Suite A, and it sounded good. There had been some concessions on both sides...
...years since Adolf Hitler had seized power amid the hoarse cheers of German millions; ten years since his armies had invaded Poland; five years since the memorable period in history when 12,000 Jews died each day in the Nazi gas chambers at Oswiecim; four years since the battered Third Reich had surrendered to the overwhelming might of the U.S. and its Allies. A new regime, already endowed with many of the powers of a respected, sovereign nation, was rising from Germany's ruins. The Western world, led by the U.S., was about to slip the shackles off defeated...
West Germany is desperately short of housing (it needs an estimated 8,000,000 two-room apartments). More than a third of the West Germans live in close, degrading quarters, whole families cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow bitter in the stifling intimacy of want. Among the demoralized, cheap vice grows weedlike and ugly. In bomb-battered Essen, one of the first businesses to recover was the red-light district: harlots' row was rebuilt while the rest of the city lay in rubble...
Hastie received an interim appointment to the bench of the Third District Court of Philadelphia. Although the appointment by President Truman is subject to confirmation at the next session of the Senate, Hastie sat with the full bench yesterday on his first case...
...third and most important reason why this particular statement should not have come out at this time is that the Ivy League scheduling meeting irritated many other Ivy League schools and it is doubtful that this will react to Bingham's advantage when it comes to making up he 1952 football slate...