Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them was Clifford M. Holland, the tunnel project's chief engineer, who died of strain and overwork three years before the great bore was completed...
Dwight Eisenhower, according to Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, is a tough man across the bridge table: "Classic, sound, with occasional flashes of brilliance." Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (Ike's sometime partner) also rated with Expert Culbertson as "the best player on the Supreme Court or any other." Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley was acknowledged "an outstanding strategist; he takes more chances than Eisenhower." Tops on Culbertson's list of Government players: Major General A. M. Gruenther, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...
...painful fact was that 4,000,000 feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
...suffering from "vestiges of ... Episcopalian superego" and that it can only be cured by her indulging in a bit of homosexuality herself, when in charges Nuclear Physicist Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career...