Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outburst went far deeper than interservice bickering. Its weight made the shabby machinations and underhanded skulduggery that had preceded it seem inconsequential. The rebels were men with long and distinguished careers, among them some of the Navy's proudest names. In its impassioned power, the revolt brushed aside the Navy's civilian head, who had blandly assured the House Armed Services Committee that Navy morale was good and that the only dissatisfaction came from a few hotheads in the Navy's air arm. The Secretary of the Navy was treated to loud and sardonic laughter from...
Born. To Benson Ford, 30, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., head of the Lincoln-Mercury Division, and Edith Mc-Naughton Ford, 29, daughter of a onetime Cadillac Motor Car official: their first child, a son; in Detroit. Name: Benson Jr. Weight...
Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight...
...McCabe's doughty squad experienced the same fate its big brothers were to suffer a few hours later. The locals held their own for the first quarter before Army's weight, depth, speed, and harder-hitting attack began to tell. It was the Crimson's first game; the Cadets had already beaten Fort Bragg and the Brown jayvees...
...this continued Nazi sympathy is squarely the AMG's fault. When the military government took over, it vigorously began to clean out Nazis from public office, and tried installing people who were both anti-Nazi and anti-socialist. They ran out of these pretty quickly. Rather than threw any weight behind the reasonably left-wing Social Democratic party, which included some of Hitler's strongest opposition, the AMG started putting back Nazis. Plants were returned to their wartime directors in a "move to promote a free enterprise economy...