Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wings of the Storm. Tomorrow was bound to be stormier. The platform still had to be voted on. The party's worried leaders had done their best to produce something which, if it failed to please everyone, at least would not rile anyone very much. They had kept in touch with Harry Truman, whose cautious advice had been to keep the specific points of his so-called "civil rights" program out of the platform...
...Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...
Americans had done jobs as marvelous as the Berlin air lift before. Take the time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox dug the St. Lawrence River in three weeks. When Billy Pilgrim tried to make it tough for Babe by wetting and stretching the buckskin ropes attached to the scoop shovel, Babe just sat down until the sun came out and dried the ropes. As they dried they shrank, and pulled that scoop for miles & miles up to Babe. And there was the St. Lawrence, practically...
...Utterly Lost." In the front row a little man with trembling lips moaned: "Why have we done this to ourselves? We are lost-utterly lost...
...anything be done about morning depression in otherwise normal people? Dr. Ehrenwald is not very optimistic. They might, he thinks, arrange their hours so that their heaviest work is done in the evening, when they are at their best. If they take sleeping pills, they should avoid the late-acting kind that take effect when they have become sleepy anyway. Otherwise, since it is impossible to send the morning head back to bed while the body goes to work, the only thing to do is grin & bear...