Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Model T and a mule met on a narrow road and neither would give way. "What are you?" said the mule to the Model T. "I'm an automobile," replied the Model T, "and what are you?" To which the mule replied: "I'm a horse." Then they both laughed and shared the road...
...problem then was what to do with the information. Disclosure might give away the workings of the U.S. atomic detection network; it might be better if the Russians did not know the U.S. knew. But no one wanted to let the Russians make a triumphant announcement at a moment of their own choosing, when the news might become a massive propaganda coup. President Truman decided to announce the news immediately...
...Floods, No Smog. The air had been fairly well cleared of smoke-Pittsburghers were sharply aware of that. There was 39% more sunlight: a white shirt could be worn decently a whole day. Locomotives were allowed by law to give off nothing worse than No. 2 smoke (not as white as No. 1, but not nearly as black as No. 4). Householders were forced to burn smokeless fuel. When fog settled over Pittsburgh, it was no longer smog...
Henceforth G.I.s may, without risking the guardhouse, give presents of castoff clothing, chewing gum or cigarettes to their Japanese friends, male or female. The G.I.s can also take their girls to Japanese movies without worrying about MPs. They are free to enter Japanese theaters, restaurants, hotels or hospitals, and to be entertained by Japanese friends in their homes. They may travel around Japan without official, written permission, and it is all right for them to compete in "all sports" with the Japanese, who are anxious to match some of their baseball teams against service outfits...
...plane in Rome that she "realized it was Roberto, the man, who had inspired her . . ." Now she did not intend to return to the U.S. until she could come back as Mrs. Rossellini. To Hearst's Hollywood Gossipist Louella Parsons, McDonald confided that Ingrid was ready to give Husband Peter half their community property in exchange for a divorce, and to put the other half in a trust for Pia, their eleven-year-old daughter. "She has no hard feelings toward him," McDonald reported. "She feels as a daughter would toward a father, but says she has never been...