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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auditorium will serve for official ceremonies, press conferences, radio and television broadcasts, private and public meetings, movies and social affairs. Be sides a stage which can be lowered out of sight on a hydraulic hoist, it will have two soundproofed radio booths and an elevated booth for photographers...
System. In Winchester, Va., Chief of Police C. W. Hollis, sick & tired of having street lights broken by vandals, told his men to shoot offenders on sight, then arrest them. Said he, without reservation: "It's easier to arrest them after they're shot...
...determined not to be one. Faith in his church, cheery letters from his sisters, and a firm belief in the strength of his armor plate kept him going until headaches and nervousness got him down. ¶ A sergeant had nightmares; he also had near-hysteria at the sight of blood. He had known about his condition since youth, and took regular slugs of brandy to quiet his nerves. In a cheerful, half-drunk state, he commanded a tank for two months. ¶ A soldier who had suffered tantrums as a child hardened up when his brother was killed...
Once she was within 40 miles of Atlantic City. Then she was forced to run closereefed, before new offshore gales, was blown east again and south; it seemed that her people were to die just out of sight of land...
...qualified for politics instinctively know how to guard the unity of conscience and action, of spirit and power, at least subjectively. They pursue politics as an art of life and of power that cannot be entirely freed from a strain of vitally useful evil, but that never quite loses sight of the higher, the idea, human decency, and morality...