Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder whether Ken might not have won a Silver Star on our side with that Japanese outfit in Italy, if, so long ago, a little girl's mother hadn't taken exception to his almond eyes...
...President's opponents at last had something to get their wisdom teeth into. Cried Ohio's Senator Robert Taft: "We are going to face many trade restrictions from England and other [countries], and Lend-Lease would have given us something to bargain with if the President hadn't so hastily given it all away...
...leader of the powerful Trades Union Congress, began his ministerial career by settling a serious railwaymen's strike twelve hours after taking office. A onetime printer's devil, he went to Buckingham Palace for his seals of office in a grey flannel suit, because "I hadn't the time to get myself up all posh...
...Everywhere comment was the same," cabled Kip Finch, Manager of TIME'S Overseas Editions. "At the ATC Depot in the Place Vendome six G.I.s and a lieutenant grabbed for copies. And when they noticed the date on the cover they 'really gawked; they hadn't seen .an American magazine later than March. As I went on I looked back and there on their blanket rolls sat the seven soldiers with their heads buried in seven copies of TIME-oblivious even of the passing Parisiennes...
...payoff was that Casey hadn't finished that issue yet. It took all his tact to get the magazine back before he could take off again...