Word: give
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Acheson tried to give an answer of sorts at his weekly press conference. The U.S. did not recognize the Nationalist blockade, he said, because the Nationalists could not make it effective. But the State Department wished fervently that U.S. ships would quit trying to run the blockade. Acheson added that there was a difference between having a legal right and going to all possible lengths to enforce legal rights...
Sydney Holland, 56-year-old businessman, sheep rancher, World War I artilleryman, and politician since 1935, forcefully led the attack. "Make your pounds go further," he cried. "We'll give you more for less...
...full, round figure alerted Washington's amateur physicists. According to fairly dependable estimates, the Hiroshima bomb developed not more than 10% of the fission energy present in its nuclear explosive. Perfect efficiency (probably impossible) would therefore give about ten times as much power, certainly not 1,000 times as much. So, figured the amateur physicists, the talkative Senator must have meant a bomb made out of hydrogen. It is well known that the conversion of hydrogen into helium is the nuclear reaction that gives the sun its energy...
Rarely have such a collection of wits gotten together at one time to give "Patience." Their singing, their acting, and even their facial expressions put it across in a manner that had the audience rearing with laughter all night...
Other Houses, all or which will stage plays as usual this year, will give their productions next week, nearer to the Christmas vacation...