Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift was duly appreciated. A few days after the Jap came to Luzon, Chief Tomas picked up three Nip pilots forced down in his territory, trussed them like pigs, delivered them to his Yankee friends. This week Tomas decided the time had come for a more decisive step. With a sling of poisoned arrows over his shoulder, an ancient cartridge belt around his middle and a gleaming bolo in his hand, he looked up the U.S. Army. Drawing himself up to his full height (4 ft.), he announced that the Balugas had unanimously voted to help the U.S. defeat Japan...
Before Prague's leading railway station there had stood since 1928 a statue of the scholarly Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, a gift of U.S. Czechs. Flowers were often strewn at its base by ardent Czechs in tribute to President Wilson's part in founding the CzechoSlovak Republic. Last week it was carted away by order of Adolf Hitler's blood-drenched chief executioner, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich of Bohemia-Moravia...
With the aid of a Russian-born tenor, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a million-dollar gift in the form of a collection of its own choosing. The museum, already the possessor of one of the best public collections of early American arts and crafts, has for six years been helping Patron Maxim Karolik pick up the best American antiques in the 13 original colonies...
Britons who get extra cigarets, food and candy from U.S. friends could not hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...
...battle song Komin-tern, it is not Mexican, but an ultrasophisticated mixture of Hindemith, Schönberg and Prokofieff. This was not the way Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...