Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hand-to-Mouth. The nations of Western Europe are not making a real recovery from the damage done by the war. They are staggering along on a hand-to-mouth basis. We in America certainly have a great stake in getting these nations back on their feet and on a self-supporting basis, if for no other reason than that we can then stop our own expenditures for foreign relief. To re-establish these nations will, however, cost money. But it is worth doing, if in exchange for our aid, the nations of Western Europe agree, for example, to integrate...
Then the drivers "beat the side of his head with a shotgun." Said Marvin H. Flemming's statement: "I could hear some licks like they were pounding on him with the butt end of a gun. I heard the Negro say, 'Lord, you done killed me.' " Finally, said Charlie Covington, he heard Roosevelt Carlos Hurd Sr., a Blue Bird cab driver, cry out: "Give me the gun and let's get this over with." Just then, "a tall, slender boy with bushy hair hit the Negro in the mouth and knocked him down. The Negro started...
Economics, as amoral as science and as flexible as art, offers complicated reasons why it should be done. But the plain people of Europe, faced with an uncertain summer and the certainty of terrible winter, will hardly understand such nonsense. In Germany, gripped by a grave food crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), potatoes meant life. Britain was still wearily debating whether or not the noted nutritionist, Dr. Franklin Bicknell, had been right when he said that Britons were slowly starving. In France, the daily bread ration had been cut from 10.5 ounces to 8.3 ounces, may be cut again, and Premier...
...Glass of Wine. Again & again they returned to the terrible effect the war had had on Russia, and told how nobody wanted another war. "So much ruin, so much bloodshed, so much to be done again," said the young veteran, "and our reconstruction goes so very slowly...
...Mother ignored them.* A minute later the crowd's attention was directed elsewhere. In an upper story window they caught sight of a familiar face. Peering from behind a dressing-table mirror, Princess Elizabeth was taking one last peek at her future subjects before the great day was done. The crowd howled and the Princess waved. As the throngs finally dispersed, an elderly lady sighed with satisfaction. "Well," she said, "they certainly looked very glad to be home again, didn't they...