Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty to 75 leathery old prospectors refused to believe the geologists, the calamity howlers or anyone else. This week they were building log foundations for their tents, ordering prospectors' boilers (for thawing ground) and preparing to drive shafts to bedrock, if necessary, before surrendering...
...Last week in Manhattan the case of Adolf Schmidt was ruled on by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Schmidt's lawyer argued that moral character is not something determined by an immigration examiner but something "that measures up as good among the people of the community in which the party lives...
Americans had come to accept the proposition that "the Marshall Plan is a success." The proposition was true, up to a point. Yet Americans were also learning that, in the battle for the West's survival, every success leads only to the anteroom of another crisis. Last week ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman flew to Paris, and into a new anteroom...
...Last week, Moscow's Literary Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...
...Last week Tussaud's was shaken; their reputation for accuracy was at stake; if Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...