Word: tides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Robert Schuman, ordinarily a meek and mouselike man, last week pounced on the Communists like a raging lion. The tide of battle between Schuman's government and the Reds, who were trying to paralyze the nation, turned suddenly in Schuman's favor. It was the legislative measures he proposed against them that really staggered the "Cocos"; but the newly leonine M. Schuman showed himself not averse to a little personal action as well. When Communist Jacques Duclos called him a dirty name in the Assembly, Schuman started right down the aisle. Ushers held him back...
Beans & Whiskers. M. Schuman said he wanted a showdown; that he would push for "unconditional capitulation." The Cocos were already cringing. They asked a 1,500-franc payment for each striking worker to tide him over the Dec. 1 payday. Schuman refused...
...force manufacturers to unload hoarded stocks, taxes were upped. To nip the credit inflation, he halved the lending power of Italian banks. To tide over small companies, the government formed the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, a sort of RFC. In two months it has already made loans of 5 billion lira...
...Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party), founded only a year ago, had dared to challenge Dev's Fianna Fail. In Dublin, Waterford and Tipperary Counties, Clann candidates cut heavily into the Fianna's 1944 majorities. "The political tide, if it has not yet turned," said the Irish Times, "most assuredly is turning...
...both dressing rooms most people agreed that although Jackson, Nadherny, and Furse wrought the destruction, the two 15-yard penalties against the Crimson in the third period gave the Bulldogs the opportunities and turned the tide toward the Blue. The first nullified Paul Lazzaro's twisting run through center for 35 yards to the Yale 10, and the second, for roughing the kicker, set up the Eli's third score by giving them a first down...