Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military commission convened in Rome's Palace of Justice, the General said Ja, he had ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside out. A Führerbefehl (order from Hitler) had decreed death for captured commandos and saboteurs. When junior officers protested, he countermanded his order, asked higher-ups what to do. Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring's headquarters said shoot the captives; after that, he had no alternative...
...ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
Standard's prettiest executives have both been working since they were children. Miss Reynolds, a native of Waterbury, Conn., was a bank clerk at 15. She worked her way through Wheaton College, taught junior high school just long enough (one year) to decide she did not like it, settled down as a stenographer in Standard's accounting department 19 years...
...never been apparent why such shows as "Kiss and Tell," "Janie," and "Junior Miss" have been considered at all funny. As James Agee pointed out in a different vein, they are interesting in the same way that a slide of cancer tissue would be interesting. To all but the most hardened optimists, the uncanny accuracy of these shows would appear to signal, with the maturity of the children depicted, the final blow-up of middle-class society. But still they keep coming...
...chairman of the Senate's war-contracts investigating committee, Democrat Harry Truman leaned heavily on Republican Harold Hitz Burton. Chairman Truman seldom made a major move without first talking it over with Ohio's husky, square-faced junior Senator. Harry Truman liked Lawyer Burton's insistence on facts and fairness, his conscientious work...