Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elections and birthdays can neither raise temperatures nor kill Finns, and at week's end the people were still grumbling...
...keenest, most widespread quotation hunt in the history of a nation of ardent quotation pullers and hunters raged last week all over the British Empire. King George started it by winding up his globe-circling Christmas Day broadcast to his peoples thus...
...this letter did not say who authored the lines, and George VI simply used them without further research. The London Times readily turned up the letter, but it was only a casual epistle from a Mrs. J. C. M. Allen, of Clifton. Bristol, who said last week that she copied the lines from a 1938 Christmas card sent her by a Miss Dorothy Glover, also of Bristol. Miss Glover said her card was based on lines scribbled by her late father, Dr. Richard Glover, on the back of a post card. It appeared that Dr. Glover, onetime President...
Neither police nor Army had much difficulty in identifying the holdup men as members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the band of Eire patriot-terrorists whose program is to sever the few remaining ties with Great Britain and unite Northern Ireland with Eire. Last week 16 of those accused of the robbery were caught, and about 700,000 rounds of the missing ammunition were found in various hideouts. Eire's Army and police were scared that the I. R. A., its fire power thus reinforced, would attempt a coup d'état either in Eire...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire, renewed I. R. A. activity was bad news. No one has insisted more emphatically that Eire and Northern Ireland should be one nation, nor has he been anything but independent of Great Britain. Last week, in a radio broadcast to the U. S. in which he urged that peace in Europe be negotiated now, Mr. de Valera slipped in a request for U. S. moral support "to our efforts to have the partition of our country immediately brought to an end." But most embarrassing to the Prime Minister would be a violent attempt...