Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quoted as placing the U.S. frontier on the Rhine. But this time Bradley made his point from the lesson of recent history. The invasion of Normandy, Bradley reminded his listeners, had cost 21,000 U.S. casualties in the first ten days. The North Atlantic Treaty was the surest way to save the U.S. from making another such bloody invasion. Said Bradley: "I don't believe any nation would attack such a combination of friendly countries...
...Horse Again. Democrats cheered with relief. They had not won anything; they had simply turned aside what would have been a humiliating defeat. The Taft-Hartley Act still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
...like it or not, Reuther finally had to go along. Reuther could only hope that Ford would find a way to take him off the hook. This week, as the paralysis of Ford's River Rouge complex threatened to make thousands of other Ford workers idle, Reuther suggested, and Ford agreed, to resume negotiations...
...accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree to a block; before the Russians backed down last week hundreds had gone. But now tiny new seedlings are pushing their way up through the patches of earth where the old trees once stood. More than anything I have seen here, this is a symbol of Berlin's victory. Despite kidnapings, despite the Communist propaganda barrage, despite intimidation, Berlin's people have remained calm and unruffled. An old man carefully tending...
Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...