Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottom!") Marshal Vendome was enchanted, soon signed Alberoni on as his private secretary. The shrewd secretary bought Vendome's vain generals new wigs, found art ists to paint their portraits, cooked them delicious Parmesan dishes. At the end of the eleven-year-long war, Abbe Alberoni was "the virtual quartermaster of the French army." In 1713 the Duke of Parma made him his agent in Madrid, an unofficial name for troublemaker...
...test came in 1942's late summer. Parliament's rump gathered in Châtelguyon's shabby Hotel Richelieu, heard Cabinet Chief Pierre Laval decree the legislature's virtual death. Edouard Herriot, with venerable Senate President Jules Jeannenez, broke silence. To Chief of State Pétain he sent a solemn, indignant protest: "You have substituted unlimited dictatorship for guarantees that all civilized nations grant. . . . It is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth...
...potential "life service" to Warner Bros. by a Superior Court in Los Angeles. In a ruling which the Motion Picture Daily called "precedent-establishing," the judge declared that to add the accumulated lost time of her seven suspensions to the seven calendar years of her contract "would amount to virtual peonage." Warner Bros. declared that it had just begun to fight...
...mere plants will not do it. The Army must convince U.S. workers that the tractor, while not as glamorous as a P-47, is even more essential in many areas. Sorest pressed is the South Pacific, where each island hop forward means not only virtual abandonment of rear bases, but a huge new construction job. In effect, the U.S. will cross the Pacific at the speed of a tractor...
Next, after the conquered country's currency had been sufficiently inflated with printing-press money, German agents appeared to buy such nonportable assets as farms, real estate, mines, factories, corporations. Later steps involved the scientific appropriation of the best of the conquered nation's food, and the virtual enslavement of its labor...