Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew of the Fortress Passion Flower it was their 18th and biggest mission-the first big U.S. raid on Berlin. In the ball turret Gunner Dick Litherland of St. Francis, Ill. sweated it out-the toughest battle U.S. airmen had fought over Europe. Sixty-eight Fortresses and Liberators failed to return, but Passion Flower dragged home on three engines. Gunner Litherland told this story...
...speaker, Henry Wallace has warm words and a cold tongue. As a politician, he doesn't know what time it is. Six months ago he was generally rebuked by the press, not for his assertions that certain Americans are Fascists, but for not naming them. Last week his passion for labeling his opponents got the upper hand again...
Roseland was started by a Philadelphia accountant named Louis Brecker, who had a passion for dancing and a simple ambition to make a million dollars. His partner was a Pottsville, Pa. brewer named Frank D. Yuengling. Brecker had decided that the public wanted cheap but respectable dance halls. Brecker's first Roseland, in Philadelphia, repaid his investment in six months...
...right as a scientist, Dr. Cattell rated much more than perfunctory notice. To him the U.S. owed not only much of its information about scientists, but also much of its passion for psychological tests. With William James, Cattell pioneered the U.S. study of psychology...
...Pain and Passion. The Commissioner had understood: a veteran of France's underground, he knew that silence was the Assembly's rebuke to him, to General de Gaulle, to all administrative committeemen who for any reason had postponed the trials of such Vichymen as Pierre Etienne Flandin, Pierre Boisson. Fighting Frenchmen approached this question with the pain and passion of their long agony; they resented the patent fact that the U.S. and British Governments had interceded for some of the arrested men.* They reacted as Frenchmen have always reacted: the parliamentarians in the Consultative Assembly turned upon...