Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Taylor's colleagues still had their complex. Immediately after his speech, the Senate voted down a proposal to hike its salary 33%, even denied itself $2,500 a year for extra expenses...
...Assembly Line. If any one man had produced the atom bomb, he would have been the Man of 1945 without challenge. But science, as it became more complex, had become an assembly line, where individual men contributed a turn here and a tw.ist there, often without knowing what came...
...Army Commander in Chief in India was tall, handsome General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 61, K.C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. Top Royal Air Force Commander in that area was his friend Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, 53, K.C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C. Both Sir Claude and Sir Richard had complex, varying command relations with Mountbatten, Stilwell, Wavell, and with each other...
...ways a perfect 19th-Century hero: a child-as he was actually the great-grandfather-of Byronism. Actor Evans, however, does not play him that way. His Hamlet, even before it braved possible G.I. guffaws, was a man of energy and action. His Hamlet remains, for that reason, not complex or deeply felt. But it has great stage authority, fine comic and sardonic moments, and elocutionary skill that makes every word of the part clear, every line of it count...
Others going or gone: 66-year-old Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-hoo") Lear, who fought in the Spanish-American war, onetime chief of the Army Ground Forces; Major General Charles P. Gross, director of the Army's complex and titanic transportation during the last three years of the war; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, famed wartime chief of the Eighth Air Force (see PEOPLE...