Word: department
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of Chungking were shocked even by the customs of the modernized coastal Chinese who retreated to the province six years ago. The U.S. soldiers depart even further than the coastal Chinese from Chungking social conventions. Chungking people believe that woman's place is in the home, that no nice girl goes out publicly with a man, that only a trull plays and drinks with a man, that marriages are arranged by parents and no nonsense...
...want most? Her dilemma stemmed from the fact that the Japanese had held her first husband, Army Air Forces Lieut. Harold Goad, a prisoner without notifying the U.S. He had been listed as missing in action for a year after his bomber exploded over Burma. Last fall, the War Depart ment officially pronounced him dead, and two months later Mrs. Goad was married to Ensign Robert A. MacDowell, U.S.N.R...
...open Wednesday, April 25, 1945. A man from every country that is not our enemy will be there. They will talk about everlasting peace. That will mean a lot to everybody. When I get big, I won't have to worry about losing my husband or to depart with my children. And when I want to go for rides I won't have to worry about gasoline. And also when I want to make some candy or something, I won't have to say I can't because I haven't enough sugar. Little children...
...pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd-men; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left...
Lady Oakes, svelte, greying, Australian-born widow of multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes, appeared socially (at the opera in Philadelphia) for the first time since her husband was found murdered in July 1943. She pronounced Philadelphians "good, sound, solid people," planned to depart soon for her first journey to the Bahamas since her son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was acquitted of the unsolved murder there...