Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatness of Simplicity. Homely, homespun 56-year-old General Omar Bradley was the obvious choice for the job, and a happy one. Omar Bradley had taken the U.S. some time to know. At West Point, where he was a '15 classmate of Eisenhower's, he is remembered as the crack centerfielder who made the longest throw in Academy history. A stateside captain in World War I, he spent the "next 25 years trying to explain why I didn't get overseas." He began World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under...
...week's end the Assembly won the ministers' approval of a nine-point agenda (six points more than the ministers first proposed), including "human rights & fundamental freedoms...
Cubans quickly saw that the bankers had made Prío's point for him. Nobody could seriously argue any longer that an ambitious public-works program could be financed as well in the Cuban money market...
Usually the peak comes in the 36th week of the calendar year or the 26th week of the "polio year" (which begins after the low point in mid-March). This year, since the disease got off to a flying start in an early hot spell, the peak may well come early. In the South, where polio strikes sooner, new cases reported have already leveled off and should decline from now on; the North may have to wait three or four weeks for a drop...
Malicious Gossip. "It was my desire," said her statement, "not to make any declaration until the conclusion of the picture I am now making. But persistent malicious gossip that has even reached the point where I am made to appear as a prisoner has obliged me to break my silence and demonstrate my free will. I have instructed my lawyer to start divorce proceedings immediately. Also, at the conclusion of my present picture, it is my intention to retire into private life." Hollywood, which had already written off Ingrid's marriage, assumed that she planned to marry Rossellini, though...