Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense in Depth. In Little Rock, Ark., Joseph B. Bates admitted sending obscene letters to religious publications. His reason : the housing shortage kept him from living with his wife, who would have kept him from mailing that sort of letter...
Posthumous Justice. The explanation was partly sentimental: most of the solo artists and conductors took no fee, but specified that the money should go to Bartók's sick widow. But Bartók's closest friend and fellow Hungarian, Violinist Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti), insisted that there was more to the Bartók revival than that. Said he: "It's not planned but spontaneous. It has an element of the bad conscience, like all posthumous justice...
...Howley, governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
...shorter, he would be like Roy Howard. If he had a couple of million more, he would be like Ogden Reid, and if he had the gout, he would be like [the New York Daily News's Captain Joe] Patterson, and each of them thinks he is a Joseph Pulitzer...
Amid the sunshine and fruit trees on his 10,000-acre ranch near Arvin, Calif., Joseph Di Giorgio, 71, imperiously watched workmen pour concrete for what will be the world's largest winery...