Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pope Pius XII, taking note that Italian women were about to vote nationally for the first time, made it plain that the Church wanted them to: "Your day is here . . . public life needs you . . . direct action . . . is indispensable." He warned them against the "marvelous promises" of totalitarianism, and observed that "no wise woman favors a policy of class struggle...
...falsetto note of cheer was struck by the House Naval Affairs Committee. When reporters sought the committee's authority for saying that electronic detonation of approaching bombs promised to provide an effective defense, the committee turned out to have nothing more solid in mind than a newspaper interview with Crooner Bing Crosby's somewhat scientific brother Larry...
Some correspondents, taking sentimental note of his snowy hair and his known apathy to everything but fighting and cussing, said that it was not his fault-he should never have been made an occupation governor...
...receiving end, the mingled snatches are sorted out by another special cathode-ray tube and distributed to 24 listening telephones. Each set of one-millionth-of-a-second pulses blends into a smooth, clear voice, for the pulses come so close together that the ear cannot note the silences between them...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...