Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salutation was a mite too bland. The letter itself reminded North Carolina's hot-tempered, 77-year-old Representative Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, of a kick in the pants. For three months he had sweated over the biggest tax bill of all time, conferring with Treasury officials, arguing behind locked doors with fainthearted committeemen. For a week he had fought hard to get the bill through the House intact. Now, on the eve of passage, came the President's letter...
...Shriver Reifsnider. Bishop Reifsnider is one of the three American bishops who were at the head of the church in Japan until the Government forced foreign-mission executives to resign last year. This May, soon after Episcopalians turned over some $5,059,339 worth of property to native churchmen, bland Japanese decorated him with the Order of the Sacred Treasure...
Compared to the razzle-dazzle, full-blast Russo-German world series. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Syrian campaign last week seemed like a bland rural cricket match with luncheon intervals and time out for tea. But with Damascus fallen, Beirut tottering, Palmyra (Tadmor) encircled and a drive on for the important road junctions and airport at Horns, it looked as though the match would soon be won by Sir Henry's British-Free French team...
...Against this were operating costs of $90,000 (wages, food, fuel, general overhead at $7,500 daily), plus depreciation and interest of $28,200 ($2,350 daily). Result: net loss of $41,700 a trip. The loss to U.S. Lines was less than that. Under the Bailey-Bland (ship relief) Act of 1940, most of its losses will be paid by the Government...
...many of the features of all three, on his career. His name is Samadhi, which means Collection. (Such symmetries make one shudder to think what Dr. Mann could do with Abie's Irish Rose.) This story is told with a great writer's irony at its most bland, cruel and elegant...