Word: work
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year, the Man of the Century is Henry A. Wallace for his work for Peace and Freedom for all mankind...
...presenting an orderly picture of a situation so complicated and hard to define. Generalizations are never in order under circumstances such as we find in the turmoil in which Germany finds itself today. I shall often refer to this issue as I am called upon to report on my work of the past two years...
Undercover History. Phil Jessup's latest excursion into public life was certain to enter him in his colleagues' history books. Hardly had he settled down in his small paneled office in the State Department before he was making undercover trips to Manhattan to work out the settlement of the Berlin blockade with Russia's Yakov Malik. In the pale-pink glow of hopefulness that followed, he served Acheson as alternate chief of delegation at the Paris four-power conference, proved to himself once again that the Russians had altered their basic strategy not one whit...
...Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed over...
...second half, the Varsity settled down after trailing, 24 to 16, at the half; the team began to work the ball into Rockwell, and with one-and-a-half minutes to go, it led, 53 to 50. During the remainder of the game, Springfield dropped in seven free throws and a field goal, with Rockwell, Stiles, and Covey fouling out in the process...