Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taft himself had to admit the possibility; that was why he was in Ohio this week, worried and working. Taft's defeat could well mark the end for years to come of any coherent opposition to the Fair Deal. "And if he wins," hazarded an Ohio newspaper, editor, "he'll be the next Republican presidential candidate." It was obviously too soon for such talk, though it would not down. At least, with Taft, the G.O.P. would be able-in fact forced -to make a frontal attack on all those issues which were slicked over and evaded...
...appeared, could go down as well as up. He could go all the way down to Buchenwald, and beyond that to the place where he could say he did not know whether he or another was guilty of Buchenwald. Without World War II's dreadful lesson of evil, Western man would not have been able to recognize Communism's evil, even cloudily...
...most important missions in history." Someone yelled from the dockside, "Bring us back some dollars!" Bevin said: "I would ask the public not to expect to find the solution in a moment." Sir Stafford smiled toothily at his colleague's statement. "Good," he applauded. "Well done...
...Simplification of U.S. customs procedure. The British object to technicalities which classify sheep shears as a "surgical instrument," and by which rugs with fringes on them get charged as lace because the law puts fringes in the lace-and-trimmings category. The U.S. customs maze is well-nigh impenetrable to the would-be British trader without customs-broker guidance, which adds to the cost of British goods...
...Russians, the U.S. State Department explained, "are seeking to reserve to themselves war booty which they had previously agreed to relinquish, as well as the greater share of Austria's oil-refining capacity and oil-exploration areas, of which they were to have received only some 60% under the treaty document." So far, Russia's only "concession" has been to drop its support of claims to Carinthia made by Tito's rebellious Yugoslavia...