Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Facing an air reserve officers' seminar in Washington last fortnight, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who means what he says and says what he means, tossed aside his staff-drafted notes and growled, "I don't want to offer you platitudes." Whereupon LeMay, longtime (1948-57) boss of the Strategic Air Command, now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, proceeded into blunt analysis of the role of reserve and National Guard outfits in modern defense establishment. By last week, with the angry replies coming in. Curt LeMay may have wished he had stuck to platitudes...
...gambling by putting more prisoners out in the open air on work details, the card tables are still busy. The convicts themselves are responsible for keeping the games clean. Says one: "The inmates control the gambling. They watch out and keep the trouble down, because they don't want to lose this privilege. Listen, most of these guys know all about cheating; they could outcheat anybody. So there isn't any. They ride herd on it." Adds he: "This is probably the most honest gambling casino there is anywhere...
...British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting Labor's leaders with the hard fact that Britain's citizens want no more socialism...
...Nozzi inspiration was the ivory telephones that Café de Paris waiters plug in at the tables. This won the Café de Paris the patronage of many of Rome's ubiquitous movie agents, one of whom cheerily explained: "I can get on the horn there if I want...
Most U.S. immigrants want to keep their U.S. citizenship. Under immigration policy, Canada does not really mind, but hopes for a change of heart. Statistics show a small (1,356 last year) but growing percentage of Americans taking out Canadian citizenship...