Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...origin of the name of Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea...
...decision of Attorney General Biddle to regard all aliens of Italian origin as friendly, and to exempt them from curfew restrictions and other disabilities, is intelligent, humane, and well-advised...
...move forward to extend this wise and benevolent policy to another potentially valuable and highly deserving group in our midst. There are in America hundreds of thousands of aliens of German origin, whose loyalty to our cause is intense and unequivocal. Many of them have better reason to loathe the Nazis and their criminal accomplices than our most patriotic citizens can ever know. They have felt the lash of the Gestapo and the agonies of the concentration camp; they have been despoiled of loved ones, possessions, home, country and citizenship. These people are pledged by every sacred oath, by every...
...night. Day after day the police would erase DEATH TO THE TRAITORS OF VICHY, ANNET FOR THE GALLOWS and many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction: AUX ARMES, CITOYENS...
...interest in cuckoos began rather dramatically. "I was a very small boy," he writes, "when I found my first Cuckoo's egg in a Hedge-Sparrow's nest in a Norfolk lane. [It was] a red letter day which synchronized with my first attempt to read The Origin of Species. Since then I have been filled with interest in Cuckoo's eggs and Evolution...