Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he got his dander up at all in public during the week was over, of all things, traffic laws. Before the President's Conference on Highway Safety, Truman condemned lax state drivers' examination laws, including those of his own Missouri. "Terrible!" cried the President. "Why a man can go down to a drugstore [in Missouri] from an insane asylum and spend a quarter and get a license to drive anywhere in the state...
...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
...deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...
...average capacity of an average man--154 pounds, is one quart of hundred proof whiskey, Science Magazine says. If you're heavier you can guzzle a little more...
...recognized as real and complete human beings, with feelings that can be hurt and turned sour. Screen Plays Corporation and director Mark Robson set out to demonstrate this first truth without any mumbling or crossed fingers. What they want to show is simply this: If you hate a black man for being black, he hates your guts for being a bigot. And if you needle him long enough, he's liable to go out of his mind--just as you would. It is not a very fancy message, and it doesn't make for a pleasant, vapid evening...