Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sore at TIME for passing up a suggested story or condensing my long account to a few lines. Then I remind myself that TIME culls the world for the news while I just cull Cuba. And I see in the final product the tempering effect of the editor who isn't swept too far one way or the other by being too close to the scene...
...Well, it isn't picked at all," Alice explained. "It's ground...
Franklin, who never took a sleeping pill in his life ("I can sleep standing or walking"), hopes to put ipecac in rat paste, and other poisons that people sometimes take by mistake. Said he last week: "It isn't only the money which I may make out of this which is exciting, it's the fact that we'll be saving lots of lives...
...paint since the war, and the masons and glaziers and bricklayers are busy everywhere. Underneath the refurbished facade, though, is a grimness which reveals in lots of little ways that the British are worrying that the gap between what's going out and what's coming back isn't being closed fast enough...
...week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla war where there are no front lines and no decisive battles." Later, Azzam suggested setting up a small token Jewish state, like Vatican City, to serve as a symbol of unity for Jews. "Anything that is good...