Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...join. "It's no place for a lady," "I wouldn't have my sister in it," "Don't get in unless you have to," they say, and we know this is not propaganda. . . . As for us girls, we love our country and will count it a great privilege to serve it, but we gotta keep peace in the family, you know. So a draft is the only way they'll get us. (TWELVE REGISTERED NURSES) Atlanta...
Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...
...messenger was Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish nobleman, Boy Scout enthusiast and general do-gooder who married U.S. Heiress Estelle Manville (Johns-Manville asbestos) in 1928. Recently he had been living near Hamburg, representing the Swedish Red Cross...
...Russia asked only to delay the vote until Argentina's record could be studied. At a full session of the world conference that afternoon, Molotov stumped to the rostrum, quoted Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull on Argentina's recent sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating, stay in the conference...
With a season's standing at only one victory against two losses, Coach Stahl will try to even up the count tomorrow when the Harvard nine plays its third home game in a row. Invading will be another naval squad, this one from the Motor Torpedo Boat Service Training Center...