Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
French Composer Darius Milhaud answered unequivocally: "I don't see why artists should not be treated as ordinary citizens. Jacques Benoist-Mechin is a composer who has written a few works in which you may find a certain gift. He was a minister in the Laval cabinet. Now he is arrested, accused as a traitor, a German spy. I hope he will be shot...
Dangerous Pets. In Manhattan, United Seamen's Service headquarters instructed its branches to stop sending gift cats to U.S. tanker crews. Reason: the static electricity in their fur makes them fire hazards...
Last seen coming out of the Harvard Provision with two bottles of Southern Comfort, Charlie Gould and Ernie Barker were the last "gift buyers" around. Everyone else has given up, purchased is two tickets to that lodge in Maine (see C. J. Ritzen, curator of choice guide books), and sunk back into his bridge coat, prepared for the days ahead...
...make a United States War Bond the perfect gift for Navy children, the Treasury Department has created the unique certificate pictured on the right...