Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen were not exactly intrigued by the prospect of another statement on inflation. They had already read too many. All week long, Democrats and Republicans had exchanged a futile barrage of charges and countercharges. Republicans accused the President of attempting to set up full wartime powers to use at his own discretion. The G.O.P., snapped West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley Kilgore, was "rushing to a three-alarm fire with a garden hose...
...went to work for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad as a water boy when he was twelve ("I had a can, and went through the cars hollering 'water!' "), was awarded a gold pin for 55 years' service. His favorite car is the Lightning. "I use to talk to that car during the depression when sometimes there wouldn't be a passenger on the whole trip. I'd say: 'Lightning, old girl, we got to do better.' And now we're doing lots better...
...Truth: 1) the Russians have a food surplus in their zone, while the U.S., Britain and France have in their zones an annual grain deficit of 6,400,000 tons on their hands; 2) the Russians use "administrative pressure," sometimes called slave labor, to make their Germans work; 3) Western Germany's complex, highly interdependent and heavily bombed industries are harder to revive than the simpler Eastern industries...
...Unrecognized Watcher. Togliatti, who likes to cap an Assembly debate with an obscure quotation from anything including the Bible and Pinocchio, that night debated happily such revolutionary questions as the use of the gerund as a participle, the correct version of lines from a 16th Century Italian poet, the corruption of the Italian language by certain "francesismi" (Gallicisms). Behind his steel-rimmed glasses his brown eyes sparkled merrily as he told how he had watched 30,000 Communist-led partisans give the Eternal City a mighty show of force...
Cooler Counsels. By week's end the Arab League states had decided not to use their national armies in a war against Zionists. But they would support a volunteer "People's Army" with recruits, supplies and arms. Britain considered banning arms shipments (as the U.S. did last fortnight) to either Jews or Arabs in Palestine. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha, who had to stay in bed with a cold during the League meetings last week, was confident that the Arabs would find arms. From his sickbed, his lank form swathed in white-&-orange striped flannel pajamas, Azzam...