Word: ny
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coudert (R-NY) said "self-determination" for dependent peoples is all right, but this will give Hawaii the opportunity "to exercise two senators worth of self-determination...
...philosophy of human, domestic, and state rights is in no way exclusive of the Communist definition of freedom as economic freedom, the right to work, the right to be free of the harrowing battle of merely staying alive. In fact, the keynote of the declaration, as reported in the NY Herald Tribune, is this new emphasis on the "freedom of security...
...appeared in such movies as "The Southerner," "State Fair," and "She Wouldn't Say Yes," will be remembered as the Western Union messenger on the Jack Benny radio program a few years ago who drawled, "Sor-ry, but y'can't have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...
...Norway, liberation was liberation, and the reaction was prompt. King Haakon and Prime Minister Johan Ny-gaardsvold in London broadcast an order to their people to cooperate with their Soviet allies, recalled that Norway and Russia had signed an occupation agreement five months ago (Norwegians will take over in their territory "as soon as the military situation permits"). To Moscow they radioed "warmest greetings...
...G.I.s were slow to reciprocate the Pyle devotion. In the field Ernie, ab normally sensitive to cold, wraps his skin ny frame in as many thicknesses of non descript clothes as he can lay hands on, makes himself look like a ready-made butt for jokes. At first the G.I.s plagued the funny-looking little man unmercifully, "scrounging" (i.e., swiping) his blankets and water, knocking off his helmet to reveal the wad of toilet paper always kept there, ridiculing his passion for orderliness and his perpetual puttering, pouncing on him in howling droves when he modestly retired behind a bush...