Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer, commandant of the School for Military Government at Charlottesville, Va. and one of the chief U.S. occupation planners, will be one of General Clay's men Friday. Another: Lewis W. Douglas, onetime Arizona Congressman, Director of the Budget, and veteran of the early New Deal, who will function without an Army commission...
...story concerns an eager young cavalryman who rides three days and nights to warn the Czarina of a conspiracy against her life. Although her placid chancellor, whose only function seems to be to ferret out such plots and counter-plots, has this one well in hand, Catherine is glad to see the breathless soldier; she decides he will look good in a creamy white uniform and promotes him to the rank of general...
...complete break in the spinal cord paralyzes all the body from the break down. Doctors have found no way to splice the cord together or revive paralyzed organs. But they can condition some of the organs to function automatically, and they can train a man, with the help of steel braces such as Franklin Roosevelt wore, to stand on his paralyzed legs...
Henceforth the two states will function as one. Both chiefs will preside in turn over the affairs of state. But both will continue to be Paramount Chiefs...
...people, as for the rest of the world, the end of World War II would bring-had already brought-one tremendous, if negative, good: the end of the monstrous historical lie embodied in Naziism and its perverted practices. Hitler, if he were still able to wonder what his historical function had been as everything crumbled, might say with Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust: I am Ein Teil -von jener Kraft, Die stets das Base will und stets das Gute schafft...