Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing (as is television itself-to the tune of some 150,000 new sets a month). Reaction from the critics has been favorable, and so has the mail we have received from televiewers-many of whom helped make the history of this filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower...
...rods," souped-up racers built from jalopies, have been an American phenomenon since the '20s, when used cars first became available in big supply. After World War II, which choked off the sport during gasoline rationing, it came back stronger than ever...
...beard has also been under fire as "a hindrance to spitting and a disturbance to elocution," a symbol of animal lust and corruption, an impediment to gas masks, an affront to pure womanhood. Detractors of the beard might even argue that the shaven jowl is invaluable in time of war: e.g., the Saxons might have won the Battle of Hastings if they had not panicked at sight of the clean-shaven Norman army. (They concluded that it consisted entirely of "Presbyteros"-which is Latin for "priests," Author Reynolds hastily explains, "not Presbyterians-a fantasy far more terrifying...
Reporter Sheean asked him how it was that a righteous war, the war against Hitler, could produce such disastrous results, and Gandhi answered simply that if violent means were used the result was always bad. Sheean asked him if the physical world was illusion and Gandhi told him that that was an incorrect translation of the word Maya; he agreed that it meant "appearances," and added in a whisper: "God is in everything. Even in the stone. Even in the stone...
...reader is sure gonna have one, too, if he plunges any deeper into this indiscriminate flood of words. Baxter Bernstein recounts the anguish of a not-so-young Yank who, on the eve of World War II, feels bound to make a confession: although he has always meant to write a book that "would be reviewed by Edmund...