Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having been in the Army, and overseas, during our wartime rationing period, I didn't have to stand in line for scarce items, or figure out how many red points I'd need for a piece of meat, or frequent the black market. I got my "C" rations as regularly as could be expected, and figured that the few I missed was little enough to give up, since the people here were limited...
...years and of an elderly gentleman named Thorwald Gustaffsen, a citizen of Stockholm, who, from 1936 until the war closed in on him in 1942, regularly sent us his Christmas gift order. It was always addressed to the same three people because, as he put it: "They need a clear, true, balanced story of the news more than any other three men in the world." The three were the late Adolf Hitler, the late Benito Mussolini, and the Emperor of Japan...
...need more food and more pay-and more to buy with the pay-before we'll dig more coal. Even with what you can earn, there's little to buy in the shops, that's worth buying, that is. Everything good goes for export. Well, they'd better send some of it to mine towns, if they want us to send coal to them. That's the export drive I want...
...When Ministers of the Crown speak like this," commented Churchill, ". . . the Prime Minister and his friends have no need to wonder why they are getting increasingly into bad odor...
Meanwhile Dean of the College Wilbur J. Bender '27 refused to comment on the committee's report. He nevertheless added that "the need for a Student Activities Center is one of the most pressing needs of the College, and, I should think, of the University...