Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening. Over the U.S. the soldiers and sailors on leave assembled at the stations. There would be a few men with their wives or their girls standing a little apart. Sometimes there would be a good-natured drunk trying to sing. The women would cry or, more often, walk away stiffly and silently. Slowly, the enormity of what had happened ended the first, quick, cocksure response...
...Council's theory that, in case of an attack, everybody in the county should stay put. Apart from the fact that the Army will need all roads in case of emergency, the business of evacuating Los Angeles County would take, at the minimum, 16 days. Another Council theory is: no blackouts. Instead, it plans to try out a system of changing light patterns. Thus, in case of trouble, traffic on Wilshire Boulevard (from the air, a steady band of light) would be shifted to other streets. Similar shifts are in order for other major arteries, but precise details...
...year when the German émigrés, having stopped in France before being finally routed from all Europe, swarmed to the U.S. to write about what happens when men and nations fall apart...
...Lapointe saw Canada become embittered, intolerant, nearly fly apart over the issue of conscription, which French Canada opposed. He never altered his own opposition to it. In 1919 he ran into the bluntest fact in Canadian politics when, as the logical successor to the late, great Sir Wilfred Laurier, he was kept from the Liberal Party leadership by a deal designed to prevent another Catholic French Canadian from becoming Prime Minister. To break the Party stalemate he threw his support to the then untried William Lyon Mackenzie King in a deal of his own. For French Canada he retained special...
Publisher Hoyt entirely separated the news departments and editorial page, setting the Oregonian's editorialists entirely apart. The Oregonian now has no editor-in-chief, and Managing Editor Robert Not-son never crosses the editorialists' path. Its three editorialists...