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...Roman faith lingered longest in the countryside. Hence the word pagan, from the Latin pagani (country people...
...State Department, Harold Ickes and other U.S. policy makers are therefore taking the longest possible view of the future. Like Thomas Jefferson, buying the West in the Louisiana Purchase, and Secretary William H. Seward, buying the-North in Alaska, the U.S. was now looking much further beyond the foreseeable future, in an effort to guarantee U.S. security...
...world's half-conquered but still-resisting nations, China has fought the longest. Savage Japanese air and land attacks, against soldiers and civilians alike, might well have made the Chinese vengeful. But in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke reasonably of the Japanese, repeating to the world what he had told President Roosevelt at Cairo...
...yanks a man into a room where two ladies are seated ("I divorced him years ago, but our retriever keeps bringing him back"). And there are two contestants glaring at each other from corners stacked with magazines ("They're seeing who can collect the National Geographic for the longest time without a break...
...from England again last week laced the multiple vapor trails of Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters bound "for Germany. For the Thunderbolts and Lightnings, it was their longest mission yet (over 400 miles out) and a new high in U.S. fighter-bomber relations...