Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip, Socialist deputy in contact with the French underground, and Rene Massigli, veteran diplomat. For Giraud: Jean Monnet, able businessman, well known in Washington and London, and General Alphonse Joseph Georges, No. 2 in military command during 1940's lost Battle of France. As seventh man and balance wheel: tactful General Georges Catroux, chief intermediary in arranging the Algiers conference...
Gandhi, with his mysticism, his dhoti, his self-imposed poverty, his goats, his spinning wheel, wants a united India, but he has lost power through the failure of his "Quit India" campaign and his pitiful attempts to meet India's economic ills through makeshift remedies...
...diamond cutter sets his whirring wheel, dresses its edge with diamond dust and lubricant as it saws slowly into the big, water-clear crystal on the cutting stand. But the big crystal under the wheel is not a diamond. It is quartz, the most abundant of all minerals but a newly prized jewel of war. Once ground to size, it is the governor of ship, plane and tank communications, an indispensable monitor of the accuracy of range-finding instruments and fire-control devices...
...argument is simple. Neither John Bricker nor any other reliable Republican wheel horse can beat Roosevelt in wartime. But "the people will really be voting for a Commander in Chief rather than for a President, and there are no credentials equal to Mac Arthur's upon that score." Clincher is the Washington-Jackson-Har-rison-Taylor-Grant-T. Roosevelt tradition of soldier heroes who have been swept to the White House on crests of military glory. Vandenberg is prudently holding his tongue in public "until the proper time...
...base in the Army's Desert Training Center (Calif.), Captain Francis E. Rogan made an inspection, finally commented: "The camouflage is only fair. They'd better work on it." Then he drove his staff car smack into the outfit's camouflaged staff headquarters, crashed one wheel into a dugout room...