Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Franklin Roosevelt sat down in an inconspicuous seat on the Democratic side, dutifully boned up on House procedure, and whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of his age could match. His own major problem, it now seemed, would be how to deserve all that might be thrust...
...when the Washington Times-Herald printed it two years ago. Last week he admitted that it was true: in 1937 Frank and Jacquinette, naively looking for a cure for the world's woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
Roosevelt during the troubled days of World War II, a formidable poker player, above all, a man of diplomacy who was appointed Chief Justice to squelch the old feud between Black and Jackson which exploded in public...
...Paris agreement, such as it was, provided a cold war respite which both sides had wanted-though the Russians had probably needed it more than the West. If the West, lulled by the Paris agreement, relaxed its efforts to build up the non-Communist world, then the meeting would turn out to be a great Communist victory. If not, it would be just another skirmish in the long, cold war...
...Israelis argue that the Arab refugees would create a potential fifth column in their young state. They point with alarm to thinly veiled references in Arab newspapers to the "coming second round" (i.e., of the Palestine war). The Israeli offer to admit some of the refugees provided they can get the Gaza strip from Egypt is generally regarded as an evasion, because no one seriously expects Egypt to cede the Gaza strip unless Israel, in return, gives up part of the Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become...