Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzerland has taken over the monumental task of representing U.S. interests in every occupied European country and every country with which the U.S. is at war. The International Red Cross in Switzerland provides the only contact for the Allies with their war prisoners in Axis hands. With its own meager rations and funds, Switzerland since 1940 has fed back to life 50,000 starving children of France, Yugoslavia and Greece, is still taking them in for a stay of three to four months each...
...bride, a chin-up war widow, an airplane spotter, a girl confused by pacifist upbringing, a World War I veteran who re-enlists, an old maid who finds a Nazi uniform buried in the dunes, the Nazi spy who buried it. For fear all this might be too meager, Playwright Hurlbut threw in a Nazi air raid...
...stage for a curriculum generally practical in wartime are the narrowly limited language requirements set for graduation from College. With our new allies have come major shifts in the importance of languages once classed as secondary; and yet men entering Harvard are still faced with the meager choice of meeting intermediate standards in either French or German...
...Stalingrad the Germans claimed that they had finally taken the whole of the Red October airplane factory-"except one hangar." Marshal Timoshenko's counterattacks made meager progress, but in the city Red troops fought not only street by street but room by room...
...cruisers. The British said recovery was impossible. But 50-year-old Captain Ellsberg put on a diving suit and took a look. The dock, he discovered, had eight watertight compartments, into each of which the Italians had dropped a 200-lb. bomb. Undiscouraged, Ellsberg went to work with meager equipment and a handful of experts. In nine days he had the dock floating...