Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship. Whatever the final outcome of the investigation, it had already defined the kind of dank atmosphere in which Vaughan's good friend Hunt and his colleagues had operated. If Vaughan himself had done nothing worse, he had used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship...
...seemed the choir sang soft and low, "Farewell my angel of the lamplight, We'll always love...
...geisha padded swiftly into the banquet hall of an exclusive Tokyo restaurant. Some bore samisens; others struck the classical attitudes of a geisha dance on the soft straw mats. Suddenly the samisens began beating it out eight to the bar and one of the girls let go a gully-low bellow that crackled the paper walls. The girls were doing the Samisen Boogie, a red-hot indication of what people meant last week when they said that Japan was jazzu-crazy...
...wall hung his last picture, sold at a Papeete auction after his death in 1903 for 7 francs. Amid the warm splendors of his South Sea island retreat, truant Frenchman Gauguin had taken a nostalgic backward look, painted from memory a wintry' Breton village scattered along a low, snow-covered horizon...
...laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...