Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing captain, Ben tried to explain: "We aren't going to eat all those steaks ourselves . . . We want to do some entertaining and give your British golfers some." Nobody swallowed the explanation...
...Mike had no intention of giving up. He got Brownie from the U-Drive to run his campaign against the recall and issued new pronunciamentos. "Why do the politicians want me out of office?" bawled Mike. "Could it be that they are frightened at what I will uncover? Don't let them sway you with their distortions of [my] innocent mistakes...
...France, Soulima remained behind and joined the French army when father Igor came to the U.S. in 1939. Soulima thinks the temporary separation was a good thing. Says he with a smile: "Now that I have begun to work out of my father's reflected glory, I want to stay...
Others attempted more precise analysis: "It's all right to play Ravel, but not with this band and not in a place where people want to dance. Artie is O.K. when he plays the Shaw stuff that everyone likes-like Stardust. But most of the time he's too kittenish, too much cat." Said another: "His orchestrations are awful, he's imitating too many other bands." Actually, Artie had been using a good many of his original ten-year-old dance orchestrations...
...heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...