Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfailing topic of conversation everywhere was the continued food scarcity. No one was starving, or even close to it. Yet makeshift meals were the order of the day. Even spaghetti was hard to get. In a Manhattan restaurant (Schrafft's) the dinner menu one night offered a choice of two vegetable plates...
...Will the 30-Hour Week Solve Our Unemployment Problem?" will be the topic of a discussion to be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Littauer Lounge...
...Francisco, 11-year-old Philip Brown, whose father, Lieut. Commander Cabot Brown, is a medical officer in the Navy, was told to write a composition for his English class. On the topic, "The First Day My Father Is Home," Philip wrote...
Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported "desperate, suicidal" Japanese air attacks on U.S. ships near Okinawa by a "special attack corps." Thus the Pacific fleet boss lifted secrecy from an enemy tactic that had been a tabooed topic (and a source of endless scuttlebutt) since the Leyte campaign...
...Chastened by the row over the secret voting deal, Secretary Stettinius now let it be known that there had been one other big topic at Yalta not mentioned in the communiqué: the question of trusteeship of colonies and liberated areas. On this there would probably be a wide split of opinion among U.S. citizens, as there was certain to be between the U.S. on one side and Britain and France on the other. The U.S. Navy, for one, made its position clear last week (see Postwar). All Ed Stettinius would say was that there would be a Big Five...