Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woman's Cruelest Weapon. During the war, Kay got to Washington. Some of the things she saw there (orange juice and fresh vegetables) she liked. But other things she did not like. Some Army wives she met "left a bad taste in my memory." She was "hurt, then angered at the slander of WACs overseas . . . How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost...
...Planet. "Within only three centuries," says Osborn, "the population of the earth has increased five times ... It is now increasing at a net rate that, if continued, would double the earth's population again in another 70 years . . . But now, with isolated and inconsequential exceptions, there are no fresh lands anywhere . . . Many of the fertile areas of the earth are today deteriorating through misuse, so that even the earth's present rate of productivity is not assured . . . Pushed to it, we are endeavoring ... to develop new means of sustaining human life. [But] if man continues his unthinking exploitation...
Each morning fresh flowers are put in the earthenware jugs surrounding it, and all through the day passersby stop to read: "At this spot was sacrificed the father, liberator, and leader of the Colombian people...
Rocket-borne cameras photographed the great round earth far below. Others took spectrograms of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. Samples of the thin, peculiar air near the top of the atmosphere were captured for analysis. Cosmic rays were counted and measured while still fresh from space. Some rockets shot out puffs of smoke, so that observers could measure high-altitude winds by the drift...
Rope (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The story: two young men, fresh out of college, strangle a young friend-just for the thrill -and hide the body in a chest.To sharpen their excitement and selfesteem, they serve a buffet supper, off the murder chest, to the victim's father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), sweetheart (Joan Chandler), unsuccessful rival (Douglas Dick) and a beloved former teacher (James Stewart...