Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
...Sunday Congressman Keogh of New York and Congressman Poage of Texas announced: "We want to find out for ourselves about freedom of religion in Spain." They attended services at a Protestant church; a third visitor went to a synagogue; a fourth went to Catholic Mass. "What was your impression?" inquired suave Merry del Val. Replied the Congressmen: "We are going to have a talk with certain correspondents back in Washington." They obviously referred to correspondents who, they thought, had exaggerated religious suppression in Spain...
...devaluation of the British pound also hit the Italian lira. The Italian cabinet had decided not to devalue the lira, which had already been drastically devalued two years ago, but to let it find its own level on a more or less free market. Forthwith the lira fell from 630 to more than 700 to the dollar. The Communists thereupon challenged Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government to parliamentary debate...
After reciting the Biblical story of the man who "once entertained certain strangers in his house, and . . . did not find out until after they [left] that they were messengers of God . . .", Oursler drew a modern parallel. He told how George C. Boldt, a Philadelphia hotel man, once surrendered his own room to an elderly stranger and his wife, two years later had the kindness repaid when the stranger (William Waldorf Astor) made him manager of Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...Puritans are also working on their ground attack, and expect to modify their standard single-wing if they find their weaker-than-average line cannot stand up against bigger and burlier teams like Adams and Lowell...