Word: mainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn...
White Light. Then the speeches started. Their main theme: only the Afrikaner (i.e., descendants of the Boers) might rightfully carry "the white light of Christendom" into "the black heart of Africa...
...Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...
...main point mentioned of those opposed to the ruling, was that merely prohibiting open discrimination provisions in a group's charter will do nothing on a practical level to eliminate discrimination...
...fine spring day during his honeymoon, Thomas Elliott Snyder suddenly dashed into a hardware store in Charleston, S.C., bought a hatchet and scurried out again. Then, while popeyed passers-by looked on, the bridegroom began hacking at a telephone pole on one of Charleston's main business streets. A few minutes later, he triumphantly rejoined his waiting and bewildered bride, with a fine specimen of a soldier termite (genus Kalotermes) in his hand...