Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object to the use of the word "gift" in the sentence, "the biggest single gift was the law permitting 8,500,000 ex-enlisted men to cash in $2 billion worth of World War II terminal leave bonds...
Something like Hell. That audience is the result of Lewis' special gift for dramatizing Christian dogma. He would be the last to claim that what he says is new; but, like another eloquent and witty popularizer of Christianity, the late G. K. Chesterton, he has a talent for putting old-fashioned truths into a modern idiom...
...President also took time last week to ponder a French farmer's advice, sent to him along with a gift of two live chickens. "What the world needs," the farmer wrote, "is more...
...morning last week 45 bigwig Southern Californians got a morning newspaper by special messenger. Each copy was gift-wrapped in cellophane, delivered free with the publisher's compliments. The paper was the New York Times, which had left New York at 12:30 that morning, and the stunt was the latest step in Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger's campaign to make the best U.S. daily a truly national newspaper. The first day's shipment to Los Angeles newsstands (150 copies) sold out by noon; next day the New York Herald Tribune, anxious not to be outpromoted, followed...
...80th Congress had done all right by its 18 million veteran-constituents. Adding up the score last week, veterans could count at least 57 new laws designed to keep them financially solvent and politically grateful. The biggest single gift was the law permitting 8,500,000 ex-enlisted men to cash in $2 billion worth of World War II terminal-leave bonds, beginning next month. The rest of the bonanza added another round $200 million. Items...