Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three things: 1) a letter from Prime Minister Churchill to Premier Stalin; 2) a reply from Premier Stalin to Prime Minister Churchill, reportedly stating a "clear and firm but not un friendly" attitude; 3) the suppression in London of a Polish-language newspaper, Wiadomosci Polskie, which had been say ing some nasty things about the Soviets...
...Muscling into the White House was an extraordinary process. For five and a half years I wandered in there casually any time, as if it were a city or county build ing, waving to the guards, listening to them exchange race tips. . . . Now I had to have everything but a blood test. I didn't recognize a single guard until the ten-minute grilling and clothes brushing was over and I was inside, with an uneasy feeling that I'd be nudged by a bayonet any minute...
...Moore has been breeding mink for 18 years. He used it to pay his way through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal U.S. mink-raising area by study of rainfall and temperature charts, he took his bride to a two-room shack on Wisconsin's Suamico River in 1934 and set up in business with 100 mink...
...stage lore. Another consuming interest was transportation. He could tell any Thamesside character who would listen the tonnage, type and country of every craft on the Thames. He loves to ride on trains, and two of his best pictures (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes} have thrill ing train sequences...
Complaints. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Mary Athens won a divorce after com plaining that her gasoline had been ra tioned, by Mr. Athens, as far back as 1936. In Chicago, Mrs. Mary Louise Schwartz won a divorce when she com plained that Schwartz struck her for refus ing to chase fire engines with...