Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight up the middle of Iwo Jima. Here it seemed that the Japs might crack wide open. But the Jap flanks held and they tightened their grip on the craggy ravines. Instead of falling apart, the Japs fought more fanatically than ever and postponed their downfall...
...Yale with a liberal outlook that satisfies New Dealers and labor. His years as board chairman of Manhattan's plushy ad firm of Benton & Bowles Inc. make him equally acceptable to most businessmen. When he took over OPA in 1943, OPA seemed ready either to 1) fall apart, or 2) be torn apart by baffled housewives, angry businessmen and the Congress. Optimists gave Bowles six weeks...
Barbara Mutton, who has been playing on-again-off-again-Finnegan with her husband, Cinemactor Gary Grant, delivered a weighty new decision: "After much thought . . . we can be happier living apart...
...though these are, they seem to flash by like a scene of violence caught in the spotlight of a passing automobile, clear, vivid, frightening, but without relation to the life around it. Black Boy helps to explain that lack of relation. It is the story of a man set apart from his own race by sensitivity and intellect, yet barred forever from the white race by the color of his skin...
...itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours. . . . A somberness of spirit that I was never to lose settled over me during the slow years of my mother's unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart and look upon excessive joy with suspicion, that was to make me selfconscious, that was to make me keep forever on the move, as though to escape a nameless fate seeking to overtake...