Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King's Coffee. But Italians long since had learned to jeer at their little king. Two attempts to assassinate Victor Emmanuel failed prior to World War II. Casualty lists and home-front privations in war did not allay the discontent. Ran one popular coffeehouse rhyme:
When the one-millionth G.I. left Britain's Southampton for Normandy after Dday, wartime Mayor Rex Stranger was on the pier to bid him goodbye. The mayor learned then that Sergeant Paul S. Shinier hailed from a town called Chambersburg in Pennsylvania, that he had left behind him a...
The leading, candidate was the External Affairs Department's experienced, able Under Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada...
There was one bright spot for men of good will-including the scientists, who prefer to work on something less disastrous to mankind: much of what was learned at Camp Detrick about spreading airborne infections can be applied to curing peacetime ills. Their equipment is now being adapted for research...
Raw Buffalo Liver. Parkman lived with the plains Indians just before they took to the warpath to halt the whites. Often he traveled with only two companions, but, Boston gentleman that he was, always carried calling cards. He learned to eat boiled dog and to like raw buffalo liver, and...