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Anyone who ever worked in Washington would agree that almost any agency could always get along on less than it asked for. But there was no evidence that the House Appropriations Committee had used any yardstick but anger in making its cuts...
...daughter of Missouri's Senator Harry S. Truman, christened the battleship Missouri. The "Big Mo," as the ship came to be called, displaced 45,000 tons, had a top speed over 30 knots, a deadly main battery of nine 16-inch rifles. She first fired her guns in anger at Iwo Jima and Okinawa ; before the war ended, she had been hit by a Japanese suicide plane (but suffered no casualties and slight damage). On her broad deck, in 1945, the Japanese signed their surrender. By 1948 the Missouri was the only U.S. battleship in commission...
Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...
...With this obedient people . . . even outbursts of vengeance seem to be regulated by a certain discipline. Calculated murder is executed in cadence; men kill other men militarily, religiously, without anger . . . with a calm more terrible than the delirium of hatred...
...idea of expansion doesn't anger me," said C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History. "Anyone who wants religion should have it." As far as the idea of a University chaplain advising students was concerned, Brinton said, "What do you want? More psychiatrists or baby deans? You need more people to hold students hands...