Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official account of the expedition continued: "This afforded us an opportunity of informing ourselves whether they were cannibals; and we did not neglect it. We first tried, by many indirect questions put to each of them apart, to learn in what manner the rest of the bodies had been disposed of; and finding them very constant in one story, that, after the flesh had been cut off, it was all burnt; we at last put the direct question, whether they had not eaten some of it? They immediately shewed as much horror at the idea as any European would have...
...better or worse politically, he had refused to make national defense a political football, had saved the U. S. from being emotionally torn apart in a way that would have halted all action on the biggest U. S. problem. With Willkie approving, not even in the U.S. Senate was a hullabaloo raised over the deal which brought the U. S. eight badly needed bases...
...control that verges on the absolute. He has charge of his terri tory's budget, initiates programs, promotes and transfers officers, has full disciplinary power over them. "We have rules," says he, "and they are very rigid. We feel that officers' lives should be kept apart." Officers cannot smoke, use alcohol, go to the theatre. Since the choice of a mate requires the approval of their superiors, nearly all of them marry within the ranks, rear another generation of Salvationists. Mrs. Commissioner Damon was Captain Annie Barrow before her marriage. The Damons' daughter, Mrs. Adjutant Lyell Rader...
Once this preliminary group of semitrained men has been polished up, new men between the ages of 21 and probably 31 will be drafted in increments of 400,000 called up about three months apart. These new recruits will be apportioned out to fill spaces in "skeleton" units officered by the Army, National Guard, and R. O. T. C. members previously referred to When the new men have been thoroughly trained, they will direct new increments of recruits, and so on, in a gradually expanding net built around the principle of assigning skilled officers to unskilled...
...evacuation of the school children could have been a success; it might have been, even apart from its war purpose, a social revolution...