Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should scare us a bit. We are being asked to sacrifice now, but we are being told at the same time that after the war there will be more nice, convenient and delightful things than we ever had before. Perhaps, but let's forget it, let's shun the thought of it, lest we remain a collective Little Woman who, by her impatience to have again what she once had, can build up a pressure from her small but increasing complaints, hints and suggestions, which in time will form blocs of selfishness in the nation...
...calm heroism over the Pacific. Noel Coward may take a bow for the plot which is much like that of "In Which We Serve." Mary Ann is the heroine of the film and deserves the glory for her modest, but moving role. John Garfield and Harry Carey discreetly shun the light of stardom for her benefit, and rightly...
...staff and whispering furtively "What did he say' Are you really going to Corpus?" There are only two weeks to wait now before we know where we'll be going, but gosh! each day seems a week. Everybody seems to favor the South and the West; everybody seems to shun Georgia and Oklahoma--any WAVE would understand...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...fanciful stroke of the Blue was noted by The New Yorker: a Chinese class for Blue announcers, who have done so well at beginning the day with Buenas dias! that they are now learning how to say "Good morning" in Mandarin (tsao shun...