Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refrigerators. In one of its zones, Nash-Kelvinator began July with the largest inventory it had ever carried. Meter-propelled sales soon cleaned out the stock. The General Furniture Co., in Chicago's slummy South Side, sold more than 2,000 refrigerators and other appliances in two weeks, almost all on the meter plan...
Married. John Dos Passes, 53, best-selling naturalistic novelist (Three Soldiers, U.S.A.); and Elizabeth Hamlin Holdridge, fortyish, widow of Author-Explorer Desmond Holdridge; each for the second time (his first wife was killed two years ago in an automobile accident in which Dos Passos lost an eye); in Towson...
...Oasis come from one or other of two emphatic and talkative echelons. First are "the purists," who believe that in these tough times the best hope for mankind is for idealists to build "oases" of humaneness and brotherly love. Stringing along with them, largely out of spiteful hope of seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted...
Some Britons once firmly believed that a man could cure a cough by pulling a hair from his head, putting it between two pieces of buttered bread, and feeding it to a dog with the words: "Good luck, you bound. May you be sick and I be sound." Expected result: the dog trotted off coughing, the man recovered...
...young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep the devil in Hell, pointed them upward in the Churchillian manner when they wanted evil to triumph. Reminded of this fact by a distraught Cornish woman, undistraught Mr. Churchill went right ahead giving his sign...