Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations, Prohibition, women suffragists, Federalism and numberless other targets. His last attack was on the doctors who wanted to hospitalize him. Hale & hearty almost to the last, he had spent a strenuous summer fishing at his north Michigan ranch. Now, at 82, he preferred to die in his spacious log house, doctors notwithstanding...
...Kuwatly-Nuri plan was less spacious, more workable, stood a better chance of success. It aimed to reunite into a Greater Syria Federation four countries-Syria, the Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan-that had formed part of the old Ottoman Empire. Arab unity would be achieved in two stages: 1) the Greater Syria move under an agreed form of government; 2) a larger League of Arab States, to which the new Greater Syria and Iraq would immediately adhere. Other Arab States might come in when they wished...
...palatial, showplace home of the late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
Military Strategy. On the second day, in the spacious, book-lined living room of the Holmes house, there was a brief military conference (90 minutes) with General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral William F. Halsey of the Third Fleet and Lieut. General Robert C. (Nellie) Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy...
Together. Charles and Mary Beard went off to a spacious old colonial house near New Milford, Conn., settled down to running a dairy farm and remaking the American mind. Each of them turned out individual books. Friendly, tough-minded Mary Beard brought labor into scholarly history (A Short History of the American Labor Movement) at a time (1920) when the subject belonged almost exclusively to pamphleteers. She wrote of women {Woman's Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature...