Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increasing the registrations for the November 1948 elections by 4,000. An English class in Fortuna. fascinated by the building of a new dam in their county, interviewed engineers, studied blueprints, took pictures, and wrote and sold a magazine article on their experience. In San Diego, a science teacher said...
Donning civilian tweeds, Crommelin pocketed a sheaf of papers, and went downtown to get in touch with the three wire services (the A.P. man said they rendezvoused in "a shadowy corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
...Navy's case was simple but grave: the U.S. was entrusting its defense to a "fallacious concept"-the atomic blitz, and an inadequate weapon-the Air Force's six-engined B-36 bomber. Said Radford: "The B-36 has become, in the minds of the American people, a symbol of a theory of warfare-the atomic blitz-which promises them a cheap and easy victory if war should come...
...game was rugged all the way, with post-whistle blocking, big pileups, and flaring tempers consistent features of the second half especially. Coach Blaik of Army said afterwards that he didn't consider the game too rough!" but Army was penalized 120 yards to Harvard...
...They played 22 minutes of excellent ball in the first quarter; they played soccer as it should be played," Munro said. "But the rest of the game was spotty and too much like coasting...