Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Unless . . . engineers, technicians highly skilled mechanics and managers work more than 40 hours a week, the program will never be completed on time. . . . The job . . . cannot be accomplished by arguments about who won't do the work and how much he won...
...send aid to the weaker partner for much the same reason that the Allies could not help the Lowlands in time: to do so might make enemies out of friends. German diplomacy worked to incorporate Yugoslavia in its Axis Order, to soothe Turkey and Bulgaria. In Spain Great Britain won a diplomatic victory, signed a clearing agreement that probably contained a secret understanding providing for the return to Spain of Gibraltar after the war. Thus, for the time being at least, was secured Britain's second naval fortress...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
Chattanoogans liked these monkeyshines. They poured into the park until the fences bulged. In 1932 the Lookouts won the Southern Association pennant for the first time in 40 years, beat the Texas League champions in the Dixie Series. Three years ago Joe Engel decided that he wanted to buy the Lookouts. He did not have enough cash. So he got 1,700 fans to chip in, buy the club for $125,000. That year, attendance tripled. The fan-owned Lookouts made a profit of $50,000. The following year Chattanooga won another pennant. But last summer, lured by the intriguing...
Four months later, when the case came up, Ed McNew was wheeled into court on a stretcher. Swallowing copious drafts of a colored liquid out of a medicine bottle, he wept, swore that the sight of Jones's camera had caused him to suffer a "mental explosion," won an acquittal. Outraged, the Knoxville Journal reprinted Photographer Jones's damning picture, with the scornful legend scrawled across it: "Not guilty...