Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casually, considered him a mere "file clerk who makes maybe $10,000 a year" (Vaughan's base pay as a major general: $8,800); 2) he knew there were "at least 300 people in Washington" in the same racket, selling their knowledge of Washington ways to businessmen who want government contracts; 3) he couldn't understand why people would "pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt, who was a wartime colonel] when at least two major generals are in the same racket"; 4) the entire subject was "silly...
...General Vaughan shook his fist under a photographer's nose and bellowed: "How would you like a punch in the nose?" The photographer suggested it would be a mistake-for Vaughan. "After all," snapped forthright Harry Vaughan, "I am the President's military aide. You guys will want favors at the White House some...
...expert had testified that the State Department documents had been typed on the Hiss typewriter; he could tell by the formations of the letter "G" for example. "You can look at all the 'Gs' you want," Stryker snorted, "they look good to me." He airily dismissed Mrs. Chambers' detailed testimony of homely intimacies between the two families. "You remember her," he said scornfully. "She sat there waving her hands as though she were priming a pump...
...Practical Kingdom. The argument over Leopold's return, his taste in wives and golf partners, has nothing to do with the kingship as such. Belgians overwhelmingly want their monarch. A practical people, they know that he serves a very practical purpose-the symbolic link binding them together as a nation...
Elena Kononenko, a member of the Soviet Writers' Union, had asked dozens of Russian youngsters the same innocent-sounding question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The answers were disturbing. Last week, in her book, We and Our Children, Russian readers were finding out that their kids want to be great and famous-and hardly any are dreaming of the workaday glories that lie ahead in mills, mines and on collective farms...