Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-around natives of the swanky resort town of Lake Geneva, Wis. "The Strangers" looked queerer and queerer. Lake Geneva enjoys a certain rural isolation but these newcomer Isolationists were a puzzle. Three of them suddenly turned up last week in headlines as witnesses before a Washington grand jury investigating Nazi propaganda. One was a tall, double-chinned brunette named Bessie Feagin, whose memory "failed" when questioned about a master mailing list. Other two-accused of obstructing the investigation-were George T. Eggleston, a balding collegiate type resembling Jimmy Roosevelt in unmatched coat & pants, and Douglas M. Stewart, a stocky...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today forced a 48-hour extension in the captive coal strike truce after he had warned steel executives and mine union leaders that the Government will be forced to resort to strong measures--probably seizure of the mines and anti-strike legislation--if production is stopped...
Furthermore, if amoeboid bumping did not work their will, the military could sometimes resort to bumping...
EVIL UNDER THE SUN - Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot's little grey cells function on the implausibly executed but beautifully elucidated murder of a blonde siren at a British summer resort. Not Christie's best, but better than most...
...President, before seizure, must determine an immediate need which will "not admit of delay or resort to any other source of supply" after "all other means . . . have been exhausted...