Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A second reason he was unhappy was because that same Sammy Chang, for whom Shigemitsu had felt sincere affection, was assassinated in Shanghai three weeks ago by Japanese thugs, presumably of the Army's Special Service Section.
Most of the Marshes went to Harvard: Othniel Charles Marsh went to Yale. There he became the first U. S. professor of paleontology. For Yale he wheedled from his uncle, crusty Financier-Philanthropist George Peabody, some $200,000 for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. For the Museum he assembled...
Little old King Vittorio Emanuele III was pressed into service. This pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) King, who really prefers peace- and for whom the Italian people preserve filial affection, was strutted off in all his regimentals to some secret "zone of operations" where he proclaimed: "Soldiers of the...
A few days later, Claude Pepper rose on the Senate floor, and with black hair plastered to his skull, long nose lifted, his slightly whining, heavily earnest voice raised above the undercurrent of whispering in the chamber, cried: "If our people had an opportunity to speak on this floor I...
To press Belgium to take Germany's side against the Allies, serve as a springboard for German attack upon Britain and France, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Fiihrer Hitler had used threats and a Fifth Column. Neither worked. One of the first things that happened last Friday was the...