Word: studious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fellow delegates escorted her to Washington: Sniper Vladimir Ptchelintzev, 23, credited with killing 152 Germans in 154 shots; pale, studious-looking Nikolai Krasavchenko, 26, in charge of keeping Moscow supplied with fuel...
...Odyssey," observed the buck, "is not history; it's pure legend. The history of great battles can be told and retold until all fact is sacrificed for legend." A studious-looking private, first class, took issue. Said he: "It's neither history nor legend; it's just good literature...
...black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been in close contact with him in shaping Federal power policies, a subject dear to the Ickes heart. How long Mr. Fortas will stay snuggled down was something for time, the terrible-tempered Mr. Ickes, and quiet, studious Mr. Fortas to decide...
...their hind legs with the formation acrobatics of his Men on the Flying Trapeze, at fields where he was stationed as a flying officer, Claire Chennault never left anything to chance-beyond the possibility of a failing motor when his pursuit ship was on its back. As studious on the ground as he was daredevil in the air, he spent hours planning his acrobatic shows. He taught his youngsters precision flying, discipline, teamwork...
...Against Germany, U.S. broadcasters have begun to take studious aim. CBS, for example, which now beams seven 15-minute periods seven days a week to Germany, has a special staff of European and German experts assembled by Dorothy Thompson-a military analyst, a Protestant thinker, an authority on German-Far Eastern Affairs, a Catholic theologian- address themselves to definite groups with in the Reich. Miss Thompson gives a weekly talk for her old anti-Nazi friends in Germany. The effectiveness of this work is attested by the fact that at least two broadcasts by Miss Thompson got a rise...