Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they are Europeans," knowing that his people already have a well of resentment against the British to draw on. The vigor of his campaigns against the U.S. was in direct ratio to his fears that U.S. troops might be welcomed with flowers, that his people as a whole might display the same Latin logic as that of the Italian soldier in Tunisia who said to his captors: "All right, laugh, but we're going to America. You're only going to Italy...
...Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs and much of their first-aid equipment." The topic of the next meeting was announced: "War Surgery...
Bulky, sad-eyed, drawling Judge Vinson, 53, is a first-rate authority on the U.S. tax laws, which he can quote, provision by provision, with all the "hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten the seniority system. His special technique is to arm himself with such a mastery of the facts at issue that he can gently but thoroughly demolish the opposition. A kind, solid and reassuring citizen, he became last week the best and most important new face in the Washington...
...smiler, according to the New York Times, was the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Admiral William Standley. He was described as so piqued over the Davies display that he was determined to resign. Commented the Admiral: "I have nothing...
Hope finally is captured, but escapes and is trapped again in the Nazi's secret council chamber. By posing as a dummy in a display. Hope sits on a bicycle and looks scared while the enemy agents quarrel over their prowess of knife throwing. Hope, of course, becomes the object of their skill, but the bicycle comes in handy when he is discovered, for even Hope can toss it at his tormentors...