Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monteiro and Dutra told Vargas that he must hold an election. The dictator called in his Minister of War. "I can resign," he told Dutra, "or I can choose a candidate. I've talked to many people, and your name has constantly recurred . . ." "A great honor," Dutra broke in. Vargas, who had expected reluctance, was caught off balance. Thereafter, while he ostensibly supported Dutra's campaign, he actually sabotaged it behind the scenes...
...Heimat (Fly with me to the home-land), and a man named Franz Winkler was listed as its composer. Some thought it came from an old German folk song. Whatever its origin, it had become a D.P. song and had swung through the concentration camps after the war. Last week, Fliege mit Mir, dolled up with new lyrics and a new name, Forever and Ever, was flying near the top of the U.S. hit parade...
Voiceman Herrick is confident that superior U.S. and British technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...
...take Sancton long to get fed up with "the rush, the noise and the grime" of city life. After a wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought it for a few thousand dollars...
When his super-centrifuge machine conked out and couldn't be repaired during the war, tousle-haired Biochemist John Vaichulis began looking around Illinois' Manteno State Mental Hospital for some other project to keep him busy. In one building on Manteno's grounds he found a group of patients who were never allowed to mix with other patients. They were the country's largest concentration of typhoid carriers, the backwash of a 1939 epidemic which swept Manteno, plus patients sent from other Illinois state hospitals to be isolated...