Word: dif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of students, to determine their views on the appropriateness of six dif- ferent proposals for a war memorial...
...Foreign Relations Committee voted down resolutions banning convoys, voted down holding hearings on them. Said Mark Sullivan of the committee's job: "They voted it down, they locked it up, they turned it down; they squelched it, they suppressed it, they buried it. They buried it in two dif erent forms and in three different ways. . . ." Senator Tobey, one sponsor, dourly said the committee was so thorough it reminded him of the old Yankee who was asked by an undertaker what should be done with the body of an unloved relative. The old Yankee wired back: "Embalm, bury, cremate...