Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breath seems to me a mistake. And the mistaken impression that it is impossible to have both at the same time is one of the biggest causes of present racial troubles. If I divide my apple with a Negro but refuse to let him bite off my half, I give him an equal right but at the same time I keep segregation. I can't believe an intelligent Negro would object or feel discriminated against...
...generous mood, the House last week approved a bill to give $1,250,000 a year in pay boosts to Cabinet officers and some 240 other department and agency heads. Cabinet members would be raised from...
...Navy pulled out of Shanghai so hastily last April that it failed to give its 800 Chinese civilian employees proper two weeks' notice. Last week, demanding full pay for the past two months (during which they did not work), workers surrounded the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, refused to let anyone leave...
...novice in a Salzburg convent, Maria Augusta began to get "bad headaches," she says, and her superiors decided to give her a vacation helping care for the seven children of the widowed Baron Georg von Trapp. Maria Augusta married the baron, bore him three children...
Thanks to efficient research, Summertime has a deceptively substantial appearance. Its. authentic period sets and costumes are persuasively gay, and the whole film is redolent of early German-American Gemütlichkeit. Its only other claim to style is Judy Garland. In several spots, she manages to give the show the look and pace of a bang-up musical...