Word: vet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...property in Germany, the fact that no cause had been assigned for the death of his sister's son-in-law in the concentration camp of Dachau. He finally wrote a letter of categorical denunciation to Adolf Hitler in which he stated, with magnificent naïveté, his "assumption that this letter shall not be withheld from the German people...
...saint, the build-up worked for four reasons : 1) the astuteness of Joe's managers; 2) the promotional genius of Mike Jacobs and his Hearst henchmen; 3) the change in the U.S. attitude toward Negroes since Jack Johnson's day; 4) Joe's naïveté, natural reserve and disinterest in liquor and tobacco. By the time Louis climbed into the ring to fight Camera, he was a living legend to his people: a black Moses leading the children of Ham out of bondage...
These are certainly times that try men's souls but, fortunately, there is still in America such a naïveté to make a foreigner, like myself, smile quite often...
...tter Vet...
...sophistication outwardly evident in a billowing grey mop and man-about-town monocle, Francophile Janet Planner still has a certain girlish naïveté. Her friends remember that when Vanity Fair asked her for a series on French murders she objected that Americans wouldn't be interested because French murders were so different from American murders...