Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of active naval duty, came the man who first said (during the Pearl Harbor attack): "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition." He is Chaplain Howell Forgy (Presbyterian). Everywhere Chaplain Forgy goes he hears his famed phrase sung as a popular song. Chaplain Forgy says he would "be content never to hear it again." He is much more interested at present in the effect of battle on a man's religious faith. Says he: "I learned more basic religion in my first five minutes under fire than I did in my seven years in the seminary...
...this 495-page book, Historian Myers gives bigotry one of its most strenuous workouts. He puts at the disposal of those who would combat bigotry, and who would preserve merely credulous and ill-informed people from the infection of intolerance, a tremendous arsenal of fact and of reference. Not content with the merely local effects of bigotry, Gustavus Myers moves, with exhaustive industry, in the iceberg depths of precedent and origin-deep into England, deep into ancient Rome...
...tango hit, To Content the Old Lady, was renamed To Gratify Mother...
...graduate student Milton Lepkin submitted them, one at a time, to 109 "average persons." From their recorded reactions he concluded that 1) the headlines that do the most to stimulate a civilian's will to win are those saying, in effect, U.S. LOSING; 2) headlines whose content is ENEMY LOSING produce the greatest degree of civilian lethargy...
...Vegetables lose part of their vitamin C content not only at night but on cloudy days...