Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Ball added a cogent argument: "What the Senator from Florida proposes is that we strip ourselves of the only real military power we still possess, the atomic bomb, and then confer with Russia about future security and peace. We might enter such a conference with clean hands, but . . . we would enter it committed in advance by our own impotence to a policy of appeasement...
Meaning of Myth. In Reason in Religion (1905) and Skepticism and Animal Faith (1923), Santayana had tried to strip life of all illusion - which included religion - and then proposed that the reader "entertain the illusion without succumbing to it." He held that religions were myths but that myths embodied great wisdom...
...Comic-strip husbands always say "Honest, I was at a lodge meeting," because Maggie, Silly Milly et al. cannot penetrate the fraternal secrecy to check up on them. Last week, more & more international politicos were joining the Knights of Yalta...
...most expensive strip of real estate in the world (Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 57th Streets) stand four churches. One of them is the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, whose 79-year-old, brownstone steeple is dwarfed by the neighboring towers of Rockefeller Center, the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...Dick Tracy comic strip last week featured...