Word: welter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never before among the overabundant welter of discussion about postwar problems has the central root of the trouble been tapped so accurately...
...welter of contracts, and awards, Standard Stock Catalogs, and Pratt and Whitney engine spares . . . out of the chaos of birthday parties at ten o'clock, baseball games at three, telephone calls in the alcove with wet wash slapping one in the face, lusty singing through the streets of Cambridge to the continued amazement of the elder citizenry, not to speak of grubby, small boys who want to know if we are WACS . . . out of the pleasant overtones of cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs...
...welter of grim and costly clashes one all-important fact emerged. Cabled Reuter's Moscow correspondent, Harold King: "It has been clearly demonstrated that the Wehrmacht is no longer the strongest single military force in Europe. The Red Army is superior...
...Amid a welter of rumors and reports these seemed significant...
Draft news reared its confused head again last week. Testimony by Manpower Commission and Army bigwigs, asking Congress for next year's payrolls, raised a welter of headlines that left draft-age men still hopeful but still bewildered. But a handful of facts shone through...