Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
...hunters would have been content to catch three or four tarsiers. But Mindanao proved to be a happy hunting ground. The native system is to track through the jungle sniffing out the tarsiers by their musty odor. When the hunter shakes the trees, the tarsiers move on. When a sizable number have congregated in an isolated tree, the natives shinny up and grab them, knowing that tarsiers, like owls, cannot move around very efficiently in daylight...
...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...
...wasn't exactly handsome; he was more like a heavy-duty freight train. A wise horse, he exerted himself no more than necessary. He never bothered to break a record unless it took record time to win; he was content to win his races by a neck, or a nose. But even a great gelding like Armed, smart in pacing himself, can run down. Five months ago, after winning eleven races and $288,725 in one season, he was pulled off the track and given a rest...
...east. They would evidently like the country to think that their stand is one of studied fair-mindedness rather than what it obviously is: a more subtle denunciation of the nominee than their Tennessean colleague's. but on identical grounds. Where McKellar shouts "Communist." Bridges, Wherry and Moore are content to cry "New Dealer," while all are united in their opposition because he is a "leftist...