Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great segment of the U. S., all this to-do undoubtedly seemed as unnecessary and embarrassing as French generals kissing. Many U. S. citizens, perhaps more than belong to any other group, are of a kind whom everyone has encountered: they do not protest their faith in democracy; they take it for granted. They vote, pay taxes and, if need be, march. For a week or two before elections they may get politically het up. But after an election is past, they quickly return to their normal attitude, which is both affectionate and aloof. Sure, they are for the President...
...their esthetically proper site on the new formation. The incision leaves an inconspicuous scar, and since it is made downward from the new nipple site, the breasts are completely unmarked above the nipples. If the breast is "hypertrophic" (over-developed), superfluous tissue is removed in a wedge-shaped segment. If it is "atrophic" (under-developed), an uplifting and reshaping job alone often restores a satisfactory contour; if not, fatty tissue lifted from the abdomen or flanks can be incorporated...
...troops of the eastern Maginot garrisons fought a fierce but losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
What John L. Lewis and William Green do and say has for long been of deep concern to a large segment of the U. S. public. Last week it became apparent that the public will probably be just as concerned in future with the doings and sayings of a couple of other fellows: Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky...
...orders went out: head for home. Later, to the freighters Mormacsea at Trondheim and Flying Fish at Bergen, caught in the middle of the shooting, went welcome news; the U. S. State Department had notified belligerents it expected U. S. ships to get safe passage out of the newest segment of the President's combat zone. This week anxious Moore-McCormack heard that Mormacsea had shoved off from Trondheim with her U. S. flag flying...