Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end it looked not only like a mystery army but a mystery invasion. The operation, it now appeared, was vest-pocket in size. The attack units were apparently only a Commando force-mostly British and quite small indeed. Its purpose seemed to be to join up with Yugoslav and Albanian guerrillas to help cut German escape routes to the north...
Vice President's Vest. Kalish and Kiplinger had problems galore. General "Hap" Arnold was approached on the eve of the invasion of France, barely found time to fling a polite refusal. Henry Wallace had vest trouble-his shirt showed above his trouser line. Once that was adjusted, the Vice President struck a satisfactory, thumb-in-belt attitude. John L. Lewis loomed rather than posed, as though facing a hostile audience...
...know of no better way to accomplish [continued operation] than to vest ownership and control of these Government plants in the men and women who have served in the armed forces. . . . Giving to each of them a share in the ownership and control of a giant segment of American industry would amount to giving them a stake in the future of the democratic economy of America which they are fighting to preserve. It would be the most beneficial form of a bonus payment...
...President looked fine: vigorous, firm, clear-eyed. But something has gone. That surpassing warmth, that almost electric personal magnetism that was such a tangible things, is dim, or seemed so. He seems more than two years older. Even his polka-dot tie, his lack of vest (as always), his rough, pale grey summer suit seemed too youthful...
...mauve elegant, regularly made the lists of the nation's "Ten-Best-Dressed." (Once shouldered off the list by Harvard Prexy James B. Conant, Beebe cried: "Why, for years Conant has been notorious for his soup stains. He carries a whole carte du jour on his vest...