Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson went on, if there is any doubt about what to do, you don't take the most extreme action first. If you have a little flurry on the border somewhere, you don't take a sledge hammer to kill a fly. You take what action is necessary, and it may be something short of force. The Japanese attack on the gunboat Panay in 1937 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 were good examples. Both were armed attacks; one called for response by armed force and the other...
...battle went on with few outward signs of drama. Rumpled, red-eyed Senators shuffled on & off the Senate floor, but in offices and cloakrooms nerves snapped like old rubber bands. Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath traded hot-tempered words with Negro Leader Walter White, who accused the Democrats of forgetting "the oldest law in politics: taking care of the people who took care of you on election...
...admitted," Dorgan went on to say, "by pretty nearly everybody that the Conference is organized by the Soviet Government and it is too bad they have an astronomer like Shapley as front...
Radcliffe's Seventieth Anniversary Fund went over the $300,000 mark this week, putting the drive three-fourths of the way toward its $400,000 June goal...
Tickets for the Dramatic Club's production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" went on sale for the first time yesterday at the Coop and in the PBH ticket office, to give students in Cambridge first crack at the best seats...