Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly created Lord Wedgwood, potteries scion and for 35 years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...March, the Committee is going to give a play stressing the common soldier's part at Valley Forge; and they also expect to put four radio series, which are now being completed, on the air for 13-week test periods in the near future, stated Fred Ossauna, Jr. '41, executive secretary of the Committee...
...came back from overseas with the rank of Lieut. Commander and the Navy Cross to wear on his blouse. He had been one of the sparkplugs of that amazing aggregation of young men known as the Yale Unit, who trained for naval flying service near his home in Locust Valley...
...looked for a "great deal more" Far Eastern trouble, explained: "While facing Germany and Italy here and in the Nile Valley we have never had any power to provide effectively for the defense of the Far East. . . . Sixty thousand men were indeed concentrated at Singapore, but the priority . . . was accorded to the Nile Valley. For this decision, in its broad strategic aspects and also in its diplomatic policy toward Russia, I take the fullest possible responsibility...
...Green Was My Valley (Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Pidgeon; TIME...