Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, a city magistrate reported clinically on its bumps and grinds.* Then some of the cast took the stand. Said famed Strip-Teaser Margie Hart, wearing woolen underwear beneath a purple ensemble: 'T hold the curtain around me, sort of tease-like." Some of her further guarantees of decorum: a G-string, rubberized stockings, three safety pins, a "victory garden" of two strategically placed flowers...
...Miami Open, only half the usual cast showed up last week. Among the missing were four of the tour's annual headliners: Ben Hogan, leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...
...relieve the starving, as Herbert Hoover did in World War I. But Lehman also would use it as psychological ammunition to help win the war. To subject nations the world over would go the word that bread and meat were on the way, once the Axis yoke was cast off. His job was not to stop with victory, but to advance behind United Nations troops with blueprints for the economic reconstruction of Europe's some-day-to-be-unshackled millions. Food, clothes and shelter, Lehman knew, would not alone build a lasting peace. Whole societies would have...
...moment Lehman's task is to plan in liaison with Army, Navy, State Department, Treasury, Lend-Lease Administration, Board of Economic Warfare, War Shipping Administration and inter-Allied committees now functioning. The world is their workshop-and the U.S. is cast for the dominant post-war role...
...students and professor alike settid down to listen to the weekly bread-cast of the Philharmonic orchestra that Sunday afternoon. In preparation for History I quizzes the next day, men attacked Thompson and Johnson with their accustomed desperate urgency. Some went to movies, others lingered at dinner. All in all, it was a very ordinary lazy Harvard Sunday afternoon...