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...financial and nonfinancial "adjustments" that he proposed to get this spring for his men-premium pay for late shifts, free explosives, fuses, rubber boots and other materials, better sanitary facilities. Then he emphasized what his unhappy listeners had already gathered: he was going to do everything possible to avoid engaging the Government on a second front-even though he enjoys fighting the Government...
...still was not saying exactly when the election would be held. "It is impossible to fix a definite date now, because it is impossible to predict the course of the war." It might not be until July. Or even later. More than anything else, Mr. King wanted to avoid, and he believed the people wanted to avoid, a wartime election...
That, I submit, is a one-line review of Hollywood Canteen. The whole glittering intricate thing blew up in our faces, and when we made our way back to the tents, stumbling and trying to avoid the foxholes in the dark, there was a fierce resentment burning like acetylene in each of us. . . . It was as though we'd been taken into a millionaire's home, treated like uncouth fools to whom a debt was unfortunately owed, then sent back, dazed by the splendorous kindliness of the mighty, to our six-by-three lives...
...meeting place. But others unloosed cautious criticism of General de Gaulle himself. Was not Le Grand Charlie being a little too proud and stiff-necked? Said L'Aurore: "We must repeat that we remain a great power, but should we not all the more carefully avoid showing bad humor?" Added Le Front National: "Let us beware of moods of anger that betray weakness more than real strength...
Bringing its exhibit up to the 20th Century, the Sociedad also showed a modern Indian dance mask fashioned of straw, bits of mirror ?nd shiny human teeth (see cut). But in the main, there was not much effort to place works in their exact historical niches. Even the archeologists avoid references to epochs: they merely speak of four vague "cultural horizons...