Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...another $800 millions into the "premium pool" which the Government thus set last week provisionally at $1,600 millions. If the grand total of war damage to British buildings turns out to be still greater than this, then under the War Damage Bill property owners will compulsorily make up half the outstanding sum and the Treasury will foot the other half of the bill...
...most dangerous aspect of Christian resistance is the refusal of thousands of churches, both Protestant and Catholic, to pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find a single word to say about...
...Deutsche Christen, who like Reichsbishop Muller wanted to make the Church the obedient instrument of the State, and who have never numbered more than 3,000 pastors...
...until after he joined the Navy in 1917 did Benny realize that his forte was ingratiating patter. Then, while appearing in a revue designed to step up recruiting and make money for the Navy, he cut loose with a couple of gags, got such a hand that he resolved to become a monologuist. During his hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went...
...fact been discussing defense for three days. The Congress' theme was "Total Preparedness for America's Future." Laying once and for all the ghostly fable that business is a united front on any subject, the subject of defense found the cream of American industry unable to make up its mind...