Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brien plans to work as an elevator operator at the First National Bank after his vacation. "It's not much," he said, "but it will give me something to do. Besides, a $40 per month pension isn't much...
...Trieste under dual Italo-Yugoslav sovereignty. But growing clashes between Italians and Slovenes in the city already showed how hopeless such a plan would be. When Byrnes turned it down, Molotov snapped: "If you mean that no compromise is possible, why not say so?" Byrnes shot back: "Because it isn't true. I have accepted several compromises. . . . So far as I can see you have retreated nowhere...
Jack Kramer, one of Southern California's innumerable gifts to tennis, sipped his tea and said: "Say, this stuff isn't bad." He was impressed, too, by the de luxe valet service in the locker room and the assemblage of 129 stars from 22 nations. It was Wimbledon's first All-England championship jamboree since 1939, and the only cloud in Kramer's sky was a blister the size of a quarter on his playing hand...
...described by Historian Carl Becker): "The lecture itself, if that is the word for it, seemed never 'prepared.' [It] was just informal, intimately conversational talk, always serious without ever being solemn; enlivened with humor . . . yet never falling to the level of the sad professorial joke. . . . No, lecture isn't the word . . . no musty air of academic infallibility clouding the room, no laying down of the law and gospel according to Turner; but . . . novel ideas carelessly thrown out with more questions asked than were answered, more problems posed than solved...
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece. Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn't the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...