Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate for confirmation. Said Vandenberg: during the months of discussion, the man most frequently mentioned for the job had been 56-year-old Paul Hoffman. Hoffman, said Vandenberg, "was found to be the common denominator of the thought of the nation." Hoffman was also well aware of the need to cooperate with Congress, Van added reassuringly. The Senate confirmed him unanimously, in 10 minutes...
...Rome passers-by heard a beggar cry: "Just for a few days more, please. After April 18, I will never need anything again." A good many Italians felt like the beggar, but they were wrong. A Communist defeat would not settle Italy's problems or eliminate the Communists from the Italian scene. It would merely give the West and Alcide de Gasperi a reprieve, another chance to do better...
...hurried edition of Stars and Stripes, with a hopeful editorial: "The Germans have what it takes to win back their freedom. Good machinery, good ink, good paper. All they need is the truth." That was three years...
...Army Medical Corps : "If a bomb were dropped on one of our cities tomorrow, mass hysteria would probably cause the unnecessary loss of many lives." In soothing vein, the Surgeon General's office this week issued a statement with a cheery title: "Army Doctors Say Hysteria Need Not Follow Atom-Bomb Explosion." Some of its reassuring points...
...childhood religious training; the majority said that they were still religious in practice. But half had no convictions about specific doctrines; 15% denied ever experiencing deep religious feeling; 25% professed orthodoxy of some kind; 20% were agnostics; 12% were atheists. But 70% said that they felt the need of some kind of belief...