Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current investigations were aimed at specific acts of disloyalty. The fact that a federal grand jury had taken no action against some persons named by congressional witnesses did not mean that those persons had been automatically cleared. For one thing, there was a strong suspicion that Department of Justice lawyers had not been overanxious to produce evidence which would reflect on a Democratic Administration. For another, congressional investigators could and should throw their spotlight in areas which no grand jury can illuminate...
...Kind Bust" v. "Mean Bust." Before he left, the Japanese poured out their appreciation of General Eichelberger. The Emperor invited him to lunch-a rare courtesy. Prince Takamatsu, the Emperor's brother, came to tea with the general and his wife Emma (who through the war, and after, got a letter a day from her husband until she joined him in Yokohama). The governor of Tokyo and the governor of Yokohama got into a squabble over which would commission a sculptor to do a "kind bust" of the general-to supplant a stern-faced "mean bust" made...
That would mean air-tight controls on all wages and prices; across-the-board rationing; higher taxes for everyone; no Government spending on such luxuries as social legislation. That would bring lower prices at the corner grocery. It would also mean lower wages, lower profits, and lower farm income. Whether or not the U.S. people were willing to swallow such bitter medicine, neither political party would'dare prescribe it in an election year...
...revival of spiritual force. Was his new book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...
...coming of the turbojet does not mean that the engine in use since the first days of the Wright brothers (pistons and propellers) is done for. It will be a long time, if ever, before that old stand-by disappears; it still has the edge over jets for many purposes, including long-range bombers. But where the power range of the old engine stops, the power of the jet begins. An air revolution is beginning...