Word: welled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holland in 1918, the Dutch people fed and helped starving German children, but the same children came back in 1940 with tanks and hand grenades to kill their well-doers-and history will repeat itself...
Like most rural towns, America would eat well-homemade fruit cakes, mashed potatoes and gravy, roast turkey with oyster dressing. There would be presents under every Christmas tree. And in the America Christian Church, Mrs. Bertha Hayden held rehearsals all week long for the pageant of "The Coming of the King...
...course Spokesman Ross was sidestepping the issue, as his press conference well knew. Whether newsmen qualified as "intimates" or not, Harry Truman had obviously gotten the same impression as many another politico: as long as Ike looked like a candidate, talked like a candidate and acted like a candidate he might as well be tagged...
...week's end, 14 days after he had received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...
...Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...