Word: factness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Satano rose to be sentenced by a five-man military tribunal. Just before the sentence was pronounced, the defendant's mother presented the embarrassed U.S. prosecutor with a bouquet of flowers. The court had decided that there were mitigating circumstances in Satano's case-mainly the fact that he had killed under orders. The sentence: five years' imprisonment. The defendant sighed happily with relief...
...County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale ... It took us some time to hunt them all up for the place was literally bulging with machines, fact is I didnt know there was that many machines in the world, but [I] recovered all of the Wharton machines...
Some critics seized on the fact that the U.S. play was co-sponsored by Britain's Arts Council, and tax-exempt as a cultural offering by a non-profit-making producer. They demanded an airing in Parliament. With tickets selling into January, an official of the producing firm asked plaintively: "How did we know the thing was going to make money...
...early-morning gab sessions with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio hamdom, it was almost like being on the outside again. In fact, he began to think, he might even get help over the radio in a plea for parole...
...designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited, etc.), and modern new stations as well...