Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RADIO REPORTERS AS UNTHOROUGH. . . . OUT OF A TWO-HOUR CONVERSATION WITH YOUR REPORTER IN WHICH I TRIED TO GIVE AN HONEST ESTIMATE OF WHAT IS FINE AND WHAT IS BAD ABOUT RADIO JOURNALISM, YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO PRINT FOUR SENTENCES. THESE . . . HAVE RATHER CRUELLY MISREPRESENTED MY VIEWS AND HAVE DONE INJURY TO MY POSITION VIS-À-VIS MY PROFESSION AND MY COLLEAGUES IN RADIO FOR MOST OF WHOM I FEEL THE GREATEST RESPECT. ERIC SEVAREID Washington...
...sergeant of the Indian Air Force knocked the gun out of Godse's hands and the yelling crowd bloodied the assassin with blows. The police wrestled him loose and bore him off to jail, where he said: "I am not at all sorry for what I have done. . . " His two male secretaries carried the bleeding Gandhi into Birla House. He never spoke again. As his soul seeped out, his grandniece Ava chanted Gandhi's favorite verses from the Hindu holy book Bhagavad-Gita...
...completed quickly. At the optical shop, work went more slowly; the incredibly delicate task of polishing the mirror could not be hurried. The mirror had to be a paraboloid (a slightly deeper curve than a hollow sphere), accurate to two-millionths of an inch. Each grinding and polishing was done with fanatical watchfulness. Visitors were asked to remove their shoes, like pious worshipers at the door of a mosque; a single grain of tracked-in sand might scratch up the glass and spoil months of work...
Hair Oil & Aluminum. The polished surface of the mirror was transparent glass, still to be covered with a reflecting film of aluminum. Before this could be done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
...queer logic to term anything right and normal just because it happens, but that is what Kinsey and his coworkers have done," Zimmerman stated. According to the report, "even the acts of the sexual athlete and the esoteric are to be considered normal...