Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interservice bitterness, and no one knew it better than Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. A month ago, he decided that the air transport services of the Air Force and the Navy should be merged. He bluntly ordered the respective Secretaries to find out "how"-not whether-it should be done...
...leave, well-tailored William Pawley dropped in on Secretary Marshall. Bluntly, the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil told his boss that things were going badly in Latin America. The latinos were sore because they felt that the U.S. was neglecting them in favor of Europe, and something ought to be done to straighten things out before next month's Pan American Conference in Bogot...
Betty Lee's heart kept its steady rhythm; the procaine had done its work. The operation was over in an hour and 35 minutes. The third day the patient sat up in bed; on the fourth, she was walking. By the fifth day her venous blood pressure, almost three times normal before the operation, was within the upper limits of normal. Her abdominal swelling was gone, her color was good, and she joked with visitors...
...time you are done with the opera-or by the time it is done with you -you have decided that Peter Grimes is the whole of bombing, machine-gunning, mining, torpedoing, ambushing humanity which talks about a guaranteed standard of living, yet does nothing but wreck its own works, degrade or pervert its own moral life and reduce itself to starvation...
Last week, without notice, they fired Wernette. Protested editors of the student paper Lobo: "Wernette is an educator and a scholar and evidently could not play politics. . . . The university is , on the bottom of the national credit list now. ... If something isn't done about our so-called 'Board of Regents,' our diplomas will be scholastically worth about as much as Confederate money...