Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice often began, "Hello, gang . . ." It reminded "all you kids" of the girls back home. "I just wonder if she isn't sort of running around with . . . 4-Fs . . ." It suggested ". . . throw down those little old guns and toddle off home . . . there's no getting the Germans down . . ." "What," it asked, "will [wounded men] think in later years when there are no jobs for cripples...
...facsimile of an English public school. Boys were belted for the most minor offenses; some tried to run away. Sons of the poor, who came on scholarships, were called "rats" by wealthier students. St. Albans School for boys, owned by the Cathedral Foundation (Episcopal) in Washington, D.C., was that sort of place 20 years...
...method applicable to the entangled dilemma of journalism--although a new newspaper's circulation battle is admittedly far more critical than a young radio station's early months. Labor unions might well take the initiative in such projects without necessarily assuming a dominant role, Cooperative civic action of this sort in promising localities would both trailblazer in a perilous jungle and underscore public rebellion against conservatism's captivity of Hildy Johnson...
There is something curious about the phrase "peace offensive." Something curious and something ominous. Strictly speaking, it has been used to suggest that various Russian and Russian-in-spired statements which seem to be peacefully inclined are actually nothing of the sort. Instead, the words "peace offensive" indicate, these statements are snares for the unsophisticated and delusions for the unenlightened, serving only propaganda purposes, and having no resemblance to a genuine effort to come to some sort of general settlement...
...That sort of thing was not what O'Brian was after. He does not think that his schools should destroy the island way of life. "Truk doesn't need democracy," says he. "It needs to feed itself, and it needs English to keep from getting fleeced if U.S. protection should end." O'Brian hopes Truk won't change too much. "It's wonderful. If I can, I'm going back there to live...