Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper angrily added a report of another case. It involved a science scholarship with a $3,600 stipend, but he did not identify the student. Iowa's Hickenlooper wanted to know why no loyalty check had been made of fellowship recipients. An answer of sorts came from Princeton's Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, up before the committee for confirmation as a $15,000-a-year member of AEC. "These men," said Dr. Smyth, "have no access to secret material." He thought that the best potential scientists had "an inquisitive turn...
...little after Christmas when the doctor first told me. Kenny and Denny were only four months old then. The doctor said he didn't want to be cruel, but he didn't know whether an operation would help ... I went home . . . As I sat in the nursery holding my two babies and crying, the only thing I could think of was that I had to tell 'Brown,' my husband. He came running into the house whistling and shouting, 'Where are my two babies?' He always says something like that...
...Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Mrs. Hoffmann talked to another mother whose 18-month-old boy had the same eye disease. "I listened as she told me that there just wasn't any hope for her boy. 'The doctors are going to operate on him but I know it won't do any good,' she told me. There's nothing anyone can do for him.' Then she said the words that shocked me terribly and at the same time made me feel sorry for her. 'Sometimes,' she told me, 'I wish...
...West had a slogan of its own. The slogan was "freedom." The West wanted German unity, too, but only on democratic terms. It certainly wanted peace, but not at any price. Said Britain's Ernest Bevin: "We may even be called 'comrades' again. You never know." Then he added grimly that Russia was still talking peace while carrying on a "policy of promoting unsettlement all around...
...pulled into Helmstedt, in the British zone, the city's brass band played a booming march of welcome. The townspeople waved and cheered. Over a loudspeaker came the voice of the stationmaster: "We heartily welcome the passengers on this first train out of Berlin. We want you to know how good we feel to be able to reunite our ties with all of you. May your journey be a pleasant...