Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seeing the women of other lands, almost to a man they were more content than ever with their women back home. Some comments: "I have learned a deeper respect for my wife and the average American woman."-"She sure will look good to me after seeing some of these women...
...staff, hearing that laugh, knew that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., after 37 years of soldiering, was content with his first taste of major battle. Until now, fate had teased him. He had learned to fly in World War I, then had been denied overseas service. At the start of World War II, commanding in Alaska, he was sitting in a strategic hot spot, seemingly destined for speedy, decisive action; but the war, lightly singeing his area, had swirled southward, leaving him in the quiet northern shadows...
Anthony Eden was asked in the House of Commons: "Would it be the duty of a British soldier who seeks Hitler to shoot him or try to bring him back alive?" Replied Mr. Eden: "I am very content to leave that to the judgment of any British soldier...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
Unlike most other nations, the U.S. has no stated policy governing international communications; it has been content to let anyone set up a radio, telephone or cable company, let free competition determine the outcome. Last week, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal told Congress that this way of doing things was sadly out of date...