Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wear & Tear. In Anderson, Ind., an Internal Revenue officer was asked by a taxpayer if he could repeat on this year's return his $1,200 annual "depreciation" figure on his wife...
...reached a milestone: last week workers began to tear down a newly built war plant...
...Near View. They may find out more soon. A special Senate committee, co-chairmaned by an oil-millionaire Senator, Edward H. Moore of Oklahoma, is scheduled to tear into the whole question of U.S. foreign policy...
...particles or meteorites might fly safely through celestial space. He admits they would meet a great hazard when they hit the earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric friction would heat the particles or meteorites enough to destroy all organisms clinging to them. But he believes that the atmosphere may tear the organisms away from their carriers before they get too hot. Any such free-floating bacteria which came in on the earth's dark side, shaded from the sun, might drop safely to earth. Q.E.D...
...stations far from the beaten trails of traffic many a human problem flares up. Sometimes a lonely man will pick up a typewriter and heave it through the window, tear out a signal key and trample it on the floor. But if a newcomer suggests discipline, oldtimers reply: "Hell, no. He'll be all right for two or three weeks now. Better watch the other guys who haven't done anything...