Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priorities will be given to anyone. Quisenberry explained, because landlords would rent the quarters to outsiders by the time the AVC contacted the proper person on any priority schedule...
Congressmen wondered if Harry Truman might go one historic step farther and do the politically unthinkable: let Donaldson pick his postmasters out of the ranks, on merit, They inquired hopefully about his life, his friends, his foibles and hobbies-and found that he is a very unpolitical person. They did learn that he is a registered Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason; that he likes flashy ties, and sometimes closes a conversation as he would a letter with "Yours very truly." They also learned that, in his off hours, he pores over a stamp collection...
Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...
There is a deep gulf between communistic theory and practice: the envisioned ideal state of happiness becomes in actuality a totalitarian government ruling in the most autocratic manner. It may be that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...
...German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...