Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip's end there was no doubt in the President's mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
...Army's judge advocate general announced that the U.S. had spent $10,000,000 paying for damage done by G.I.s in foreign countries since the end of World...
Ever since war's end the government had intended to lift the embargo (imposed in 1942 at President Roosevelt's request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...
...paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists...
...Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick and Managing Editor James, in case they are stuck at the paper all night. Joseph takes his leave of his morning-paper staff by 6 p.m. He and his assistants assign the Times's 150 reporters to stories, but the editing is done by copyreaders, which helps explain why the Times sometimes reads as if nobody edited...