Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Common, sunning himself on a park bench, an ex-corporal said: "What's the use of working for $20 a week when you get $20 for doing nothing? It's getting pretty monotonous but I haven't been able to find a thing...
...spring and warmer weather came to Tokyo, U.S. soldiers strolled arm in arm with Japanese girls along the carp-filled Imperial moat, lolled amorously on the grass of Hibiya Park, made love in the back of Army jeeps. It was hard to remember that they had once been scheduled to fight their way into Honshu at just this season. But Eighth Army commander Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger remembered...
...daughter of the president of the Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co., Inc. ("the world's most honored watch"), dashed off an outline, flew off to Havana to begin padding it out. Declared Birdwell: she would have the help of "research workers" who were beautiful models. Book's title: Park Avenue Tale...
John's literary skill is at times no match for his filial feeling. According to John's earliest memories (Oak Park, Ill. at the turn of the century): "Papa liked vaudeville! Vaudeville liked Papa!-Papa designed most of Mama's dresses. Most of Mama's dresses were brown!" The first curtain came down with a rush when Wright tired of the role of Papa and walked out on his wife and six children "overnight-he didn't even say goodbye...
They will learn that a present-day atomic bomb, exploding half a mile above Manhattan's Gramercy Park, would kill 300,000 people. But Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, who bossed the great Los Alamos Laboratory, knows that more destructive bombs are in the cards. One type, he says which "has been investigated in a preliminary way," will be too powerful for all except "very major targets such as greater New York...