Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coaxed the King to give up his powers as dictator and vest them in Red Dog. This was the decisive step. Next night Dictator General Antonescu wore down the worried monarch further, and at 3 a.m. demanded in writing his abdication in favor of Crown Prince Mihai, a nice-looking boy just right to be a puppet. His Majesty signed away his throne two hours later...
...baggy old man in a blue serge suit with white piping on his vest pottered out of the U. S. Senate chamber one day last week. With a long white holder and an unlighted cigaret in his hand, he emerged smiling like an imp. Through little knots of Capitol tourists he made his way under the rotunda to a small white door marked "To the Dome." clumped down a flight of steps and along a shining corridor, entered a three-room suite which is the only Senator's office remaining in the Capitol building itself...
Paunchy, sloppy, nervous and absentminded, he sits in an enormous office, his pince-nez suspended on a black ribbon, ashes all over his vest. Before he has finished his cigar, he starts sucking a cold pipe, then returns to the cigar. He speaks into an intercommunicator, gets no answer, shouts at it, then finds he forgot to turn it on. Chuckling and giggling, he delights in whimsies, fables and gags of the sort that baffle most businessmen, some of whom think he is insane...
...Important medical detective work is the study of clothing and bits of matter that cling to hot bullets. A shot in the liver, for example, goes through coat, vest, trousers, shirt, underclothes and skin ("which is nothing but rawhide"), forming a cone of matter with the bullet at the apex. "The direction, penetration and size of the cone are important in determining the distance and direction of the shot...
...took to the air at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Tokyo has lost face almost every time he has opened his mouth. Last week he was one of the six Americans whom Japan's puppet Chinese Government "ordered" expelled from China. Last week, in a bulletproof vest that fitted snugly around his 220-lb. frame, Alcott was still holding forth over Station XMHA, on Race Course Road...