Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was little evidence last week to remind the U.S. that hunger is as much a part of war as death & taxes. Fifty million men in the world have left the fields and factories to fight, but still the U.S. stoutly held to the fiction that a high standard of diet can be preserved in wartime. Restaurants served juicy steaks and thick lamb chops; butcher shops were well stocked with pork roasts; the egg market groaned under such a flood of eggs that the War Food Administration, to support the price, bought eggs by the carload...
Continuing its appeal to the country, the Red Cross has again urged the students to donate blood for the use of the armed forces. They remind the people that giving blood takes no more than an hour's time and causes no real discomfort; at the same time it is a valuable contribution to the medical resources overseas...
...only fair to remind PM readers that they have been forbidden to attend this picture, because it undemocratically fawns on royalty. As a mater of fact, there is some too naive wide-eyed astonishment stuff, but not enough to detract from the many laughs of the truly humorous parts...
...party members carried placards outside of the stadium accusing Wendell Willkie of deserting his party and even his country. Privately you were saying things, using a word that began with 'B' and a phrase that is indicated by 'S.O.B.' I want to remind you, therefore, that only a couple of weeks ago my party assembled at Mackinac Conference and adopted doctrines that I had been advocating, and further, that only last week Congress passed the Fulbright Resolution that was concerned with other measures I had been criticized for speaking out about...
...staff organization. Said a British officer: "All this would not be possible without Ike and Beedle." Stocky "Beedle" Smith used to train bird dogs and hunt quail with General Marshall in Virginia; in North Africa he keeps a cocker spaniel and a Virginia orderly, Sergeant Sam Carter, to remind him of happier times. He is the production manager of the Allied war machine. While his chief is on high with the plotters and the planners, Beedle is at his desk hacking through red tape, making mile-a-minute decisions. No one appreciates Smith more than Eisenhower. Late one afternoon...