Word: willfull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But research would be kept within strict bounds. Release of nuclear energy in amounts "of military or industrial value" would be controlled. Fines for willful violation of the future law were reduced from $100,000 to $10,000; imprisonment from ten years to five.
In a "Protest issue" June 13, the Spectator attacked the Emergency Council's and the King's Crown Advisory Committee's, infringement of its independence: "An intolerable situation has arisen. A willful attempt by Emergency Council is being made to grasp the reins of Spectator editorial policy so tightly that...
Having given away her mansion and large chunks of her fortune, Clara Driscoll established herself in a giant (twelve bathrooms) penthouse atop Corpus Christi's luxurious Driscoll Hotel. She had built the place in a typically willful gesture, after dressing down the manager of another house where she didn...
Last week, the War Production Board got sizzling mad at Marshall Field's New-Dealing Chicago Sun, which campaigned hotly for the fourth term. Grated WPB: "During the second quarter of 1944, the Chicago Sun used or caused to be used 886.89 tons of print paper in excess of...
Plain Man. The old man was not a great orator; but the U.S. always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made...