Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration's $1,450,000,000 military-aid program. Gathered around South Carolina's Democrat James P. Richards and Ohio's Republican John M. Vorys, a powerful coalition set out to slice the Administration's two-year plan for Western Europe in half. "If you want a two-year program," said Richards, "let's allow for the first year and then come back and take a look...
...policemen ran up, threw flares and gasoline through downstairs windows. Yellow flames began to billow through the house. Fire trucks shot sledging streams of water into the upper windows. But amid the yells, the crackle of fire, and the throb of pumps the cops could hear Craig screaming: "You want me-come...
...will he had written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem...
Gifts for a Friend. Perón also wanted to give his guest the Order of the Liberator San Martin, but Bruce begged off. Ambassadors, he said, ought not to take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
...like this starts with a field trip," Wilson said. "Once we've decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...