Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the liberation of Paris, Ike and his staff settled down at Versailles. While Ike directed the critical Battle of the Bulge, Kay discloses, he was a virtual prisoner of his own security officers in his headquarters. Army Intelligence had captured a German officer dressed in a U.S. uniform. He confessed that he was one of a band of 60 Nazis heading for Versailles to assassinate Ike. Kay apprehensively recounts: "The normal guard was doubled, trebled, quadrupled. The sound of a car exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls...
...once but three times in a week, German Communism called its ranks to strut their stuff in the city's scarred streets. But their stuff was cheap and shoddy, and the significant news when it was all over was that Communism here had once more betrayed its virtual bankruptcy...
...Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour) and his wretched mistress (Claire Trevor). These interlopers are living ghosts of the 1920s, slipping back into the U.S. from Cuba. Barring the pathetic-mistress, who is half drowned in liquor, they are mortally...
...time was short and the compulsion (fear of aggressive Communism, sharpened by the coup in Czechoslovakia) was powerful. Said a Frenchman last week: "Stalin's greatest service to humanity is that he has driven Western Europe to rationalization." Some good observers thought that military cooperation, extending to virtual military fusion of The Five, would be a fact by year...
...three years later U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine headed the first modern Pan American conference in Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...