Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days after Pearl Harbor, when the bill authorizing the President to send troops overseas was up for debate, he pushed himself feebly to his feet on the Senate floor to croak: "I object." Since that day, Hi Johnson, tired, sick and sore, had spent more of his time in his office or in hospitals, dreaming of the Presidency he never won. This week, as it must to all men, Death came in the 79th year to the California dissenter, one of the great independents of U.S. politics...
...narrower legal points had accounted for most of the recent discussion. Example: should the indictments be short (Anglo-American practice), or an almost complete statement of the prosecution's case (Continental practice)? A French expert described the resulting compromise: "A Continental lawyer looking at the document will object because it is based on Saxon law; a Saxon lawyer will claim it's based on Continental law-this proves it is good...
...Target. The atom's energy, "the basic power of the universe," is contained in the nucleus. To release that energy, this unimaginably small object must be "split" or "smashed." For would-be atom-smashers, the atomic nucleus thus became a target. The problem was to find a bullet small and tough enough to blast it, and a gun powerful and accurate enough to aim that bullet...
Lastfogel made two trips overseas, found that even entertainment-hungry G.I.s complained when the shows were second-rate. Nobody would object, he found, to more big-name performers, especially if they looked like Marlene Dietrich. Determined to satisfy his audience, Abe went to work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...
Teen-Age Girls and Where's the Meat (MARCH OF TiME-20th Century-Fox) deal briskly and informatively with two wartime phenomena which have become national preoccupations. The teenage girl, multiplied by some six million, has become a consumer with a mind very much her own: an object of special interest to magazines, department stores, dress designers, model agencies, musicians...