Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the Baltic Sea and the Bavarian Alps, the U.S., Britain and France have a string of air bases equal to any in the world. Inherited from the Nazis, the accommodations at these bases reflect the care that Hermann Goring lavished on his pet Luftwaffe. Runways (extended by the jet-flying allies) are long and smooth, operations buildings snugly efficient, living quarters furnished down to the last monogrammed china dinner service.* Only snag about the old German system of air bases: it faces the wrong way. The best of the fields, i.e., those in the Reich's rear areas...
Sure of a long stay, the actors began looking for permanent places to live. Irving Barnes, chief understudy, went to inspect a flat. "Sorry," said the landlady, "I won't rent to a Negro. You people don't know how to take care of other people's property." Joe Crawford tried to find a flat by telephone. The agent asked his nationality. "I said American," said Crawford, "and the agent told me to come on out and see it. When I got there, the landlady took one look and said it was rented...
...Truman style. He delivered a slugging political speech before a shouting, stomping crowd of 12,000 in the memorial auditorium. "In our party," cried the governor, "the presidential candidate doesn't go around the country endorsing candidates who violate the fundamental decencies . . ." Excoriating the "do-nothing, care-nothing, know-nothing mumbo jumbo" of the Republican Old Guard, Stevenson hammered away at one of his major campaign themes: "It is a tragedy that the Old Guard has succeeded in doing what Hitler's best generals never could do: they have captured General Eisenhower...
...Communists themselves ... In fighting Communism at home, I shall rely on such experienced guardians of our security as J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Bedell Smith of the Central Intelligence Agency. These men fight Communism as it must be fought-with care, thoroughness, precision and silence...
...brisk, enthusiastic French priest stepped jauntily ashore in Shanghai to begin his career as a Vincentian missionary. For the next 46 years, Father Adolph Buch kept himself busy teaching, preaching, training young Chinese priests, organizing medical dispensaries, and helping to care for the sick, the poor and the helpless. In the midst of his tasks, he found time to become a collector of butterflies as well...