Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms are short from shoulder to elbow, he is more than ordinarily susceptible to stomach ulcers. If he has kept a few baby teeth, he should watch his white blood-cell count. If a child has wide-set eyes, a low nose bridge, folds of skin obscuring the inner eye-corners and wide spaces between his front teeth, he should be especially careful about exposure to infantile paralysis...
...know," said the voice, "I have for three years hesitated to recommend a national service act. Today, however, I am convinced of its necessity. . . . National service has proven to be a unifying moral force. . . . It will be a means by which every man and woman can find that inner satisfaction which comes from making the fullest possible contribution to victory...
Since Pearl Harbor, the Emperor has all but abandoned sessions with the Privy Council (Inner Cabinet); now he confers constantly with top-rank military leaders, attends all meetings at the Imperial Military Staff Headquarters. The Japanese press has recorded his strict orders that he be awakened at any hour of the night to hear important political or military news. At daily religious ceremonies, he wears the traditional silken robes. But at all other times, he wears his bemedaled uniform, symbolizing Imperial support of the war (TIME...
Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
...declared that determined Jap resistance, rather than U.S. mistakes, caused the losses on Tarawa and would cause more on other islands. Marines particularly resented the suggestion in some reports that excessive losses off the beaches indicated bungled landings; at least half of the dead fell within the Japs' inner defenses...