Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Standley's first messages were crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...
...Henry Wallace said that Americans had been called "hysterical" in their attitude toward Russia. He would be hysterical too, he said, "if I knew only what I read in the American press. I am not accusing them of deliberately publishing untruths, but the American press does engage in selective use of the truth that is the last word in propaganda...
...hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living -telephones, railroad trains, banks, boardinghouses, taxicabs...
Works by Eliot include "After Strange Gods," "The Use of Poetry," "Collected Poems," "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Family Reunion," and "Four Quartets...
...First Use of Sanders...