Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This year, in the light of continuing world uncertainty, I am asking the Congress for Ar.my and Navy increases which are based not on panic but on common sense. They are not as great as enthusiastic alarmists seek. They are not as small as unrealistic persons claiming superior information would demand. ..." What the President left to conjecture, as he asked the nation to pay for the greatest peacetime military force in the U. S., was what the U. S. would be called upon to do if the "vicious, ruthless, destructive" forces of the world were triumphant...
Sound equipment was plugged in; flash light bulbs exploded; in painful embarrassment the new Justice went through a little act for the cameramen. He fumbled when he picked up a pencil; his assistant standing behind him reached out on one side for a piece of paper while Mr. Murphy held it out in the other direction; Mr. Murphy's voice was almost inaudible as he explained that he was sad at leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes...
Five months ago London was the biggest city in the world (population: 8,500,000). Last week Gas, Light and Coke Co., which virtually monopolizes the city's utilities, estimated a 1,500,000 decrease in customers since war broke. At the most conservative, each of those customer households represented two people. At least 3,000,000 people, therefore, had by last week been evacuated or mobilized, and London had shrunk smaller than New York City (7,425,000) and Tokyo...
Into the estuary of the Rio de la Plata last week plowed the British light cruisers Ajax and Achilles. Ajax, steaming slowly past the still visible hulk of the scuttled Admiral Graf Spee, turned into Uruguay's port of Montevideo. Achilles went on up the estuary to Buenos Aires on the Argentine side. Each cruiser explained she came only to make a 48-hour courtesy call, give her crew shore leave, take on supplies and repair wear & tear sustained during many weeks at sea, not battle damage. Uruguay and Argentina each welcomed its visitor, though the Argentines left party...
...would be impossible to prove that a man had been unable to tell the truth since birth-i.e., congenitally. Those who guessed it was Father Coughlin had more theories: 1) his Archbishop had called him off; 2) he had demanded a jury trial, which might bring to light a great deal of prejudice against him; 3) he had undoubtedly heard (even courtroom attaches knew it) that Free Press investigators had fine-toothed all his utterances, turned up many an alleged untruth. In his discussion, for example, of the famed Swiss "trial" of the forged Protocols of Zion, Father Coughlin...