Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quartermaster Corps generally did its prime job: providing the best housing, whatever the cost, in time to shelter emergency soldiers. But the sad and overweighing fact was that the Quartermaster Corps job was not topflight...
...over Washington the word is still 'defense.' In the mouth of a fainthearted army officer-there are many-it sounds natural enough; only when you hear it from men whose actions stamp them as dedicated to all-out effort does it strike you as odd and sad that this token word has taken root everywhere. . . . This arsenal of democracy, this strongest of all industrial nations, continues to view with shuddering abhorrence the world of conflict in which it finds itself. Confronted with the bloodlust of Hitler's Germany, it still wishes it could continue to dream about...
...songs in London are Tolchard Evans' Forty Million Churchills, Noel Coward's London Pride, and Michael Carr's The Day I Met His Majesty the King. Food shortages have brought forth such appetizers as Hugh Charles's & Sonny Miller's Potato Pete and the sad-refrained...
...leaders, ain't you sad for the rest...
After three .days they returned a verdict that made 5,000 people very sad: none of the litigating Stricklands was a descendant of the right Wilson Strickland; the Vinces had no legal claim. Result: Humble Oil and its associates controlled the property, would not have to pay the claimants a cent...