Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After V-E day, shipping shortages will leave tens of thousands of unneeded troops temporarily stranded in Europe and Africa. To keep them occupied, the Army this week was rapidly completing plans for an elective educational program (less serious G.I.s have a choice of supervised recreation), including every grade of...
Like millions of other kids fighting the war, Seaman Jack Cooper had his next leave mapped out. He was going back to Elkhart, Ind., marry his girl Helen (he called her "Big Eyes"), put away some home-cooked meals. Like tens of thousands of others, Cooper never made it. Radioman...
Next morning, for hundreds of miles, the eastern U.S. looked like the scene of a giant's Halloween. The storm warnings had served their purpose-the hurricane did but one-fifth the damage, took less than one-tenth of the lives claimed by the 1938 storm. But along every...
At 46, Dr. Gumpert confesses that he feels old beyond his years, that he wrote his hopeful book partly to reassure him self. He begins by noting that the average U.S. life span, now 63, has increased 15 years since 1900, that already there are tens of thousands of people...
Clarence Mackay would not give his consent to Ellin's marrying Berlin. On New Year's Eve, 1925, Berlin admitted defeat and, after pouring his passion into All Alone, prepared to sail for Europe. Then Ellin agreed to marry him despite her art-collecting, opera-patronizing, horse-racing...