Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force bases in the possession of either country all over the world. This would perhaps double the mobility of the American Navy and Air Force . . . greatly expand that of the British Empire. . . . Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care...
Growing Pains. This phenomenal growth has all been within the last decade. It began one day in the late '20s in Dallas when 1,500 schoolteachers asked Baylor University Hospital if it would furnish three weeks prepaid care for a fixed, per-person payment of $6 a year. The hospital, scenting a dependable source of income, said...
...maximum of $24 a year, the average Blue Cross subscriber, or any member of his family, gets: 1) 30 days semiprivate care in the hospital; 2) an additional period (variable according to locale) at half cost; 3) all meals, including special diets; 4) operating room and anesthesia; 5) electrocardiograms, physical therapy and routine lab tests. Membership cards are honored throughout the U.S., and farther. One member recently collected a refund for an operation performed five years ago in Tokyo...
...Walker-Allyson honeymoon is what keeps the picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
...story: a childless young actress (Maureen O'Hara), married to a successful young producer (John Payne), takes in a little girl from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...