Word: power
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
Kostov had been ousted from power last spring for being "anti-Soviet," which meant in plain Bulgarian that like Tito he opposed his country's economic exploitation by Moscow. "Kostovism," explained Bulgaria's new boss, Vulko Chervenkov, "is nothing but Titoism on Bulgarian soil." Through the summer and fall, Kostov and ten alleged accomplices were prepared for another big Communist show trial. It was reported that Kostov was flown to Moscow for "rehearsals." His jailers persuaded Kostov to write a 32,000 word "confession" of his anti-Russian activities, including the customary self-accusations that he had been...
...true soldier of Christ is based on obedience and discipline . . . Our youths, with their eyes on material things, disdain the priesthood. But I, who have had in abundance all that our youths dream of possessing, have come to say to you that all the world's gold, fame, power, applause and pleasure is not equivalent to one hour in the service of Christ...
...gingerly, as did the Christian Science Monitor. The New York Herald Tribune early warned its readers of good cause for "skepticism," and the Louisville Courier-Journal scouted the story from the start, bitterly lamenting: "Not the least of the tragedies of our era of mass communications is the power possessed by little men with loud voices and a vestigial sense of decency. Wherever the target is big enough, there the scavengers gather to demonstrate with what sickening ease the dead may be slandered...
...Joyful Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). Christmas show starring Bing Crosby, Dennis Day, Maureen O'Sullivan and others. Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). The Bishop's Wife, with Tyrone Power, David Niven, Jane Greer...