Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train rides, paid for by the Egyptian Government, last week made evacuation of Alexandria so popular that Egyptians evacuated themselves many times over. Weekends away from the city and visits to relatives in the provinces were enjoyed on free evacuation tickets. Catching on, residents of Upper Egypt paid their fare to Alexandria and rode home on the Government...
Many wondered how U. S. industrialists, used to a swift way of doing things, would fare when they met Government red tape. The Army's Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, no novice in Government business, has said that "to cut red tape you've got to be deadly accurate, or run into a demoralizing snarl." But fortnight ago big William Knudsen showed surprise when newsmen asked him about red tape's interference with NDAC's work (TIME, Aug. 5). Replied he: "I do not recognize any. People might have thought we had red tape...
...Willkie clubs popped up over the State, and a onetime Democratic Governor, Gary Augustus Hardee, took up Willkie's banner. And in Texas Peter Molyneaux's Texas Weekly declared: "There are millions of Americans who do not think President Roosevelt is indispensable, who believe that the wel fare and security of the United States will be better insured by the election of Mr. Willkie. . . ." The Right to Woo. All of this added up to a large amount of potential Willkie strength in the South, but it did not add up as yet to a single Southern vote...
...Academy Band from West Point, stress the opportunities of advancement the Army offers. Interviewed by veteran Radio Actor Ray Perkins, a major in the reserve corps, new recruits will explain why they enlisted; old-timers will describe their happy lot; mess sergeants will dwell on the tastiness of Army fare; Army wives will rejoice about life among the soldiers. Adding dignity to the show will be many an Army bigwig like Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commanding General of the First Army and Second Corps Area. With Major Richard Ernest Dupuy, public relations officer of West Point, General Drum will...
Both books begin in the last of the great World Wars. In The Twenty-Fifth Hour mankind dies out doggedly from plagues brought on by bacteriological war fare. Author Best writes with a kind of exaggerated pulp-paper toughness. His de cline of the west is slower, crueler, more realistic, less snagged with philosophical, religious and artistic asides than Poet Noyes's. A buzzard broods over his all-but-dead planet, whose curse is that there is still some doomed life left on it. Only the women are halfway happy as barbarians. Explains Author Best's hard-boiled...