Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC & ABC-TV). Economists look at the state of the Union...
...plant, indigenous to the west coast of South America, which resembles a blackthorn bush, grows to a height of eight feet...
Halfhearted Search. "America," Trappist Merton has written, "is discovering the contemplative life." British Novelist Evelyn Waugh- supports such a possibility. In a letter to Author Merton, Waugh said: "I believe there are thousands of men and women in the world who are temperamentally suited to monastic life but have no effective vocation simply because they are ignorant of the very existence of religious life. Indeed, a thesis might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full...
...Californians were the advance guard of a horde of 400,000 U.S. tourists who will go to Europe this year. Some will travel in luxury and in style, paying up to $2,340 for first class round-trip passage on the Queens and $1,790 on the America; some will rough it in the "dormitory ships," which carry student tours for as little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France...
...card and screaming at him, "Go home! Take your tanks, take your money, take the coffee and the sugar . . . and go home!" did Robert begin to understand that he had debased a human being. He decided to make it up to her by promising to bring 'her to America...