Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the 34 people in our London office spent the day in bed getting over the flu that is epidemic there-or else resting up to fight it off. But Bill Walton helped a group of our flyers give a Christmas Eve party for 40 British orphans, and next morning he was up before the bugler going from Nissen hut to Nissen hut stuffing presents in the stockings of sleeping soldiers...
...liquor stocks show that Cantabridgians will spend a liquid New Year's Eve, yet there is still some possibility that once again some daring young Freshman will cut loose in the Yard and get the squirrels stinko on Scotch...
Answers & Question. The press conference that afternoon was jammed; reporters waited 45 minutes for the President. As newsmen stood with pencils poised, the President casually announced that he did not have much news, that he was saving most of his report on his travels for a Christmas Eve broadcast to the Armed Forces. Anything left over he might tell Congress in his January state-of-the-union speech. At this point the disgusted Washington reporters, who had been scooped about Teheran and Cairo until they were raw, almost threw away their pencils. The President then, almost too casually, announced...
...Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church displayed a rare 1617 "Breeches Bible," so called because it says that Adam & Eve "sewed figgetree leaves together and made themselves breeches...
...doomed Flying Fortress, Queens Die Proudly ($2.50); The Battle Is the Pay-Off ($2), by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, ex-editor of New York City's leftist PM; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ($2), Captain Ted Lawson's report (written by Journalist Bob Considine) on the Doolittle raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey's Into the Valley ($2); Jack Belden's Retreat With Stilwell...