Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back it with a military guarantee, were disappointed and wondered what could happen next. Wrote the London Times: "If the American Congress and people, already excited and alarmed, do not respond promptly and in full to [this] appeal for practical measures, more harm than good may well be done. Flames already high will be fanned, and the fire extinguisher will still not be fashioned. . . . But if the politicians and citizens of the U.S. do respond with firm deeds . . . new history will be made...
Emily Post, grand old lady of punctilio, informed interviewers that the bedroom of her country place was done in Chinese red. "Some of my friends say they think a bedroom should be restful," said she, "but I don't rest in a bedroom ever...
...fulfillment of a dream!" crowed NBC's General David Sarnoff: "What a joy it is that this can be done while our beloved maestro is still a young man." And with that, Arturo Toscanini, who will be 81 this week, raised his baton, and led the NBC Symphony into its first televised concert...
...workers to cut out unnecessary conversation and added, "I would like to suggest that early rising is not a great hardship, that the Freshman dining hall is open at 7:15 o'clock, that there is no waiting line at that time, and that good scholastic work cam be done before 9 o'clock in the morning...
...making any predictions about the outcome of the tour. He doesn't know much about the strength of the opposition, but he does know his own team's shortcomings. To win ball games the squad will have to hit the ball a lot harder than it has done in practice...