Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeasement,' " found in Webster no shade of the shame of Munich. Since Hitler and Stalin's alliance in 1939 had set the style, there had been so many cases of ideologically strange bedfellows that the only strange thing left would be the discovery of two ideas that hadn't slept together...
...world watched the U. S. whirlpool, to see what river might flow out of its settling. France had fallen before it knew what the war was about; England, taken suddenly by the throat, hadn't had time to figure things out. The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy...
...what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...
Jesse Livermore undoubtedly would have come back a fourth time and paid his debts if SEC hadn't changed the rules. By 1937 the market became too strictly regulated for operators of his type. Through all his market days he had never been a real market insider. He never learned that sometimes it was better to take stock than cash, better to get stock control of a business to tide a man over his old age. He was a trader, a gambler-one of the sharpest. When, last spring, he put his system down on paper and reopened...
...brought a deluge of letters to support her. Eager to prevent even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink she was plugging, advised her listeners next day that she hadn't discovered a bottle of the stuff in any lunch basket she had examined. To offset such commercial gaucheries, Miss McBride made a point of eating products while discussing them on the air on the theory that she could better describe their goodness while actually going to work on them...