Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...World. In Manhattan, David Hertzson, 37, won the Borden Home Economics Scholarship over 39 female classmates. In Alfred, N.Y., young Donald Burrows topped 37 female entrants for the State Technical Institute's apple pie championship...
...Nations (would it "tie our hands"?), against Britain and France ("for trying to run out on us"). Three Cabots, a Coolidge and a Lowell joined in a group telegram to Truman and Acheson asking arbitration and concessions to the Communists. There were peeved cracks about MacArthur's misconstrued "home by Christmas" remarks-the familiar fate of a general in a jam and a public caught by surprise. There was outspoken criticism of the Administration. Said an Iowa filling-station operator: "They piddled around and piddled around. I wonder what the hell they were thinking about...
...Truman, his pearl grey Stetson conspicuous among the diplomatic Homburgs, was on hand at Washington's National Airport 22 minutes before Attlee arrived. A freezing wind whipped at the heavy, dark blue presidential overcoat. "This is London weather," he commented to Dean Acheson. "He ought to feel at home." Mr. Truman had a cheery greeting for India's Madame Ambassador Pandit, but turned away to talk football to the security guard...
...hard, shocking fact they faced was that the U.S. was out of combat-ready reserve strength. Only the 82nd Airborne Division was still left at home and at the ready. Behind them in the Army's production line was an assortment of National Guard (four divisions and spare parts) and marine outfits still in training, and the newly formed Regular 4th Division which would not be set until late spring. Equally as serious, U.S. industry had not been ordered into even a creeping mobilization. "We are moving," Mobilization Overseer Stuart Symington testified last week before the Senate Banking Committee...
...house he has lived in for 58 years. There he mused, "Makes you kind of jittery. It's kind of hard to think . . . We've got to decide where to go ... It's like having a death in the family, going to the funeral, then returning home and realizing the emptiness of the house...