Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built a church at St. Stephen, just across the narrow St. Croix River from Calais. His congregation included people from both sides of the border. When the War of 1812 broke out, he called a meet ing of Americans and Canadians. "I've christened you and married you and buried you," he told them. "We've been like one family...
...along, ask no quarter, and doIt't give any." Died. Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material for his intrigue-filled potboilers by living a fiction-like life - working simultaneously as a Turkish cavalryman and a British secret agent, dealing faro in Nevada, play ing poker for a cap and gloves during a 50-below-zero Tibetan blizzard ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...mostly his week was spent in listen ing to the endless stream of White House visitors. They were of all stripes and beliefs, and they came on all sorts of missions: North Carolina's Representative "Muley" Doughton (taxes); FEA's Leo Crowley (Lend-Lease); Bob Hannegan (patronage); Washington's ex-Senator Lewis Schwellenbach, now a federal judge (job); Wisconsin's Bob La Follette (social call...
Gortatowsky's physical slightness is concealed by skilled double-breasted tailor ing; his keen-edged, taskmasterish mind is concealed by a lulling Southern murmur and a beatific smile. Of all ways to get ahead in the Hearst empire-beyond the first essential, obedience-Gorty chose one of the shrewdest: unobtrusiveness...
...resurrection of the plan was only a part of the great step WPB took toward reconverting U.S. industry. Without wait ing for a formal announcement, WPB quietly put into effect its own plans for V-E day. As fast as it could, WPB began to lift the system of controls from indus try and turn loose manpower and materi als for big-scale civilian manufacture...