Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common with the rest of arid Southern California, Los Angeles lusted for more. Its County Board of Supervisors eyed the ocean-it suggested a prize of a million dollars for the man who could provide a process for distilling sea water cheaply enough to make its use practical. It got letters from prison inmates, housewives, inventors, crackpots, from all over the country, from Holland, India, England, Australia and half a dozen other foreign lands...
None of them gave the right answer. But Angelenos were sure that the problem -and all the rest of the city's problems-would be solved in good time. They had to be. City planners expect a population of 6,000,000 in greater Los Angeles by 1970. Less cautious citizens call the planners pikers, are certain that the city will eventually be the biggest in the world. And after that? Undoubtedly, its boosters mused, it would have another boom...
...character witnesses was the prosecution's vastly detailed case, based chiefly on the evidence of the stolen State Department documents in the possession of Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist espionage agent. Some of those papers were admittedly in Alger Hiss's own handwriting. All but one of the rest had been typed (according to an FBI expert) on an old Woodstock typewriter which had once belonged to Hiss. The defense turned to the documentary evidence...
...This resentment is grounded partly in the psychology of a colonial people whose standards of living, general educational level and technical proficiency were raised well above the standards of their mainland Chinese brethren. The Japanese, for example, trained 30,000 Formosan doctors, more than the number in all the rest of China. But when the mainland Chinese took over the island, they did not even treat the Formosans as equals, but as "liberated" inferiors. The result is that even thoughtful Formosans now say: "We think of the Japanese as dogs and the Chinese as pigs. A dog eats...
...Bismarck, which fought like fury when she was finally cornered, did not want to fight at all. Her escort was the powerful heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but they had no destroyer screen and could expect no help from the rest of the German fleet. Their task was to hit Allied shipping and run. In foul weather, the Bismarck and her cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening...