Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cockneys," said a knowing Londoner. A high U.S. official, transferred to London after long service in Rome, found British faces unhappier and wearier than those in hungry Italy. One of England's best writers last week said that no one writing about England today had any right to base anything upon the assumptions of ten, five, even two years ago: "Something has happened...
...quarter-page ads in Manhattan newspapers, the New York Stock Exchange last week pictured a sad-faced businessman wearing a dunce cap. He told a sad story: "I tried to get rich quick. In my own business I base my judgment only on facts. . . . Tips, rumors and hunches are out. I don't know why I thought the stockmarket would be different...
...huge U.S. Army-built air base near Churchill, on the western shore of Hudson Bay, a whistle shrilled through the ice-cold, early morning air. Before eleven weird, tanklike "snowmobiles," a group of men snapped to attention. They listened as Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...
...blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden sleds in tandem, followed. The base's siren whined farewell...
...first time, an event in Washington was televised over a brand-new 225-mile coaxial cable to New York.* In Manhattan's RCA building, New Yorkers saw General Dwight Eisenhower place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue, heard others make brief speeches. But comparing the image with newsphotos of the same event, they found it as blurred as an early Chaplin movie. Proud as television was, it admitted that the Washington-New York hookup would not be in regular use for six months, that a coast-to-coast network was still years away...