Word: tional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...Washington's Export-Import Bank had a cashier's cage, foreign nationals would have been queued up there last week. With Lend-Lease ended (see NA TIONAL AFFAIRS), the borrowers were figuratively standing in front of the Export- Import Bank's 64 desks, hat in hand...
...been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked...
...costumes are by Cecil Beaton, who evidently lost his heart but not his wits in somebody's attic. The characters, their plight, their lines, their postures and emo tional attitudes are as exquisitely stylized as classical ballet...
...Third-seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals...