Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was also time for sentiment, hitherto the stumbling block of U.S. radio propaganda. Army Hour managed it without slopping over. Its brief drama of a World War I veteran seeing his son off to World War II was just about right. Said he: "If we'd finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...
When the potential cooperation of a ten per cent block of them country is badly needed, the present attitude of the navy higher-ups is a fallacy of logic as much as a violation of ideals. The navy's recent move must be taken for what it is, an opening wedge and no more. If the impression of finality and great advance which the Navy Department has tried to create, and which is evidenced in Secretary Knox's unfortunately patronizing attitude when he says "the whole thing will be carried along in a cordial spirit of experimentation"--if this attitude...
...smoked a bit of back-room political haggling as ever went on in a jerkwater election for justice of the peace took on empire dimensions last week. The hagglers were two Prime Ministers, Tory Winston Churchill and Laborite John Curtin. The man in the middle, a thoroughly miserable chopping block for a personal quarrel, was popular, efficient Richard Gardiner Casey, Australian Minister to the U.S. He got a new job, but the story of how he got it was so confused by personalities that it overshadowed a significant shift in world politics...
...bureau, curtained cupboard, with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch of greensward in the heart of town. Charge the girls, say, 50 cents...
Sons o' Fun. Helzapoppin's first-born is a blue chip off the old block (TIME...