Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week, at the Army War College's sumptuous officers' club, two admirals and their wives gave a little party to commemorate the dissolution of Joint Army-Navy Task Force No. i, which staged Operation Crossroads at Bikini. An East St. Louis (111.) group of bakers sent a cake, made out of tiny angel-food puffs, in the shape of an atomic explosion. Vice Admiral W.H.P. ("Spike...
...bring about the reunion, the Quakers had set up a joint body-the Philadelphia General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends-and invited Quakers from far & near to attend. The Hicksites' red brick, wide-eaved meetinghouse was filled, to near capacity (1,400) with sober Friends. On its cushioned brown benches they "centered down" before each session in the vibrant silence characteristic of Quaker worship...
...guinea pigs proved that loud and constant noise does no hamper efficiency or make for neurotic individuals. A steady stream of practical inventions for wartime communications and medical purposes poured forth form this laboratory and its partner project in Cruft, the Electro-Acoustic Laboratory. Among the contributions of the joint effort were an clactroacoustic air speed indicator, lightweight soundproofing for air-planes, aural blind flying instruments, and special earplugs which make possible better hearing of voice under conditions of sustained loud noise...
...story behind the battle began with attempts by the House group to question Shapley about the activities of the CIO and National citizens Political Action Committees, the independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, particularly in regard to the recent election contest between Joseph Martin and Martha Sharp...
When Pertini made his surprising report, the Socialist party executive committee voted unanimously for joint action with the Reds. Even Socialist leader Ignazio Silone, an ex-Communist whose novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) are magnificent tracts against both Communism and Fascism, went along with Pertini. Explained Silone: "The greatest danger to Italian democracy today is not Communism. It is neo-Fascism...