Word: erect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Mumford, was his "indifference" to art, philosophy, science and "political improvement." But Jesus is "hardly responsible," Author Mumford believes, for the "little men who guarded Jesus' memory, took him, drained off the precious life blood of his spirit, mummified his body . . . and over his remains . . . proceeded to erect . . . the Christian Church...
...laymen's disillusionment with air power was growing. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart: "It is strange, after reading eyewitness accounts of how Cassino was leveled by the air force, to stand on a hill overlooking the town and see so many buildings still erect. . . . The Allied air forces have been the victims of too much ballyhoo...
...Miss Cannell. Women are stripped of their furs in the street. Sometimes this is the act of patriots resentful of profiteers and collaborators. More frequently it is the sign of increasing lawlessness, a growth of gangsterism. Women "defy restrictions with monumental hats that take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected the guillotine...
This was the grave problem that troubled tall, erect Brigadier General Charles Duncanson Young, 65, who last week took over Joe Eastman's job. Railroad-trained (42 years with the Pennsy) Young helped Eastman set up ODT in 1942, was in the Army Supply Division for six months as Director of Procurement and Distribution. He returned to ODT in July 1942, was Deputy Director when Eastman died...
...grave registration, one of the principal tasks of chaplains on the fighting fronts, is to prevent too many "unknown soldiers." Chaplains are taught to erect simple wooden crosses where men have been buried, and to draw maps showing the position of their graves...