Word: marvelled
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...they could accept all the bids they get to spend vacations with club officers everywhere from Maine to Southern California-and just after Pearl Harbor a chairman of the Missouri Women's Clubs jokingly invited the Club Bureau's entire staff to share their bomb shelter in Marvel Cave. In fact, the national offices of most of the women's clubs have given the Bureau so much personal advice and practical encouragement that by now Miss Williams is not sure always whether her procedures grew out of her own thinking or the clubs' suggesting. But either...
...Best musicomedy performer: Danny Kaye as the double-talking marvel of Let's Face...
...Crimea. Germans with their first wounds all healed went back into action last week. "They silently marvel," wrote a German correspondent of the returning men, "at the deeds of those who broke through into Crimea, but know that the toughest fights are ahead before all of Crimea is taken...
...economic background of any of the countries he talks about. Such a task would be far beyond his capabilities or ambitions, he asserts. Instead, he has chosen to present a smooth-running account of what he saw and heard in his tour of Lain America. One cannot but marvel that he should so neatly and unfailingly pick out the right amount and mixture of facts, figures, and opinions on which to make his representative characters speak and move about. He is particularly good on such important personalities as Vargas, Comacho, Batista, and de la Tarremen who may turn...
...that are doing. In the course of this curious, but manifest activity, they have the effrontery to say that those who realize that compromise with Nazism is physically impossible "have failed to state their peace aims." I have never had profound respect for semantics as a cult, but I marvel that it's devotees do not come to grips with the use of "war" and "peace" as current examples of the sentimental confusion to which even some professors are fantastically subject...