Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main street. They work with the Chinese police whose orders are to break up demonstrations. The municipal government is planning to license eight dance halls (heretofore banned) to give Americans some safe recreation. It is also trying to explain to the Chinese people that the Americans are a curious people who just want to talk and go out with women. Said Chungking's Mayor Ho Yao-tsu: "Americans, coming from a freedom-loving country, respect the equality of sexes and regard proper social contacts as natural. There is no reason why social contacts between Chinese girls and their American...
...letters, published this week (Mendelssohn Letters, edited by G. Selden-Goth; Pantheon Books Inc., $4.50), prove that the light-hearted Felix was a curious target for so much Nazi venom. Hardly aware of his Jewish ancestry, Felix was a devout Christian. Some of his paragraphs were so passionately certain of the supremacy of German art that even the shrill Dr. Goebbels might have applauded. He wrote his family: "There is surely no art like our German one!" And to Goethe...
...across the U.S. there were signs of this curious transition period: half war and half peace. The Army cut back its plane production program by 17,000 planes, saving $4 billions, and temporarily throwing thousands out of work. The next day, fire bombs from 500 Superforts set flames that roared and crackled through Tokyo, licking the edge of the Emperor's palace...
Smallpox' wartime career has been curious: a 1944 epidemic in Italy produced 1,500 cases but only six deaths-it was a new, mild type of the disease. Last year there were only three cases of smallpox among the 200 million people of northwestern Europe...
...Just as curious as this experiment with war-risk life insurance were some of the results of war-risk property insurance...