Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the vanquished depended on UNO for their eventual hope. With all its faults-and the first few days made them evident-UNO had a chance to make the world's ideal of a just and durable peace come true. And if UNO failed, late or soon, there would be a yet more terrible...
...York City's tabloid Daily News continued to argue that Manhattan, definitely out of the running, was ideal because it could make any delegate feel at home-the Chinese would be happy living in Chinatown, the French in Greenwich Village, the British at the Waldorf. "If [the delegates] . . . were cooped up in some sort of compound at Hyde Park, it would be like a lot of laundresses taking in one another's washing...
...audience-Lieut. Colonel William M. Hendrix-to model a figure of his wife, his first attempt at sculpture (see cut) and present it to the park system. Said bad-tempered Moses: "I can think of nothing more unwelcome than your gift of the bronze, life-size statue of The Ideal American Wife. I say this unhesitatingly without having seen it. ... We have a number of reclamation operations . . . which require fill of all kinds. I can promise that your statue will be part of the foundation of a new park, but it will be underground...
...shows the plane's altitude and its rate of descent. The azimuth beam shows the direction of the plane's approach and its distance from the landing field. In both indicators, the plane's air track appears on calibrated error meters-with a hairline representing the ideal approach. On the basis of these meter readings, the pilot gets such verbal instructions as "Change course to 064 degree heading" or "Increase rate of descent to 150 feet per minute...
...point to spend the money helping America's underprivileged children, who are very much alive? I feel certain that, if the wishes of these dead were known, they would prefer to have their remains left where they are and to have the money spent for the ideal they died for-the future generation...