Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wales. They made no bones about complaining of inaccuracies in the buildings, of names on tombstones of people who had never lived in their town. According to Director Ford, one, whose brother is buried in Wales, found his name on a tombstone and went there each noon to mourn...
...buildings were hung with banners and streamers, decorated with huge, garish masks. The streets were noisy with drunken yells all through the night and far into the morning. New Mexico's City of the Holy Faith was busy last week celebrating La Fiesta, and in no mood to mourn...
...supplies to defense-favored customers only. Another key Japanese supplier is the machine-tool industry, which has made sales of about $20,000,000 a year to Japan ever since German industry became too preoccupied with its own rearmament to supply such exports. But machine-tool men would not mourn the loss of their Japanese arms-making customers. They are already in danger of defense priorities, would doubtless be relieved if Japanese work (already paid for in the main) could be passed up in favor of overdue defense work at home...
...from one house to another. And with all its injustices and monumental blunders, it has been flowering-"In my lifetime I saw unfolding before me the magnificent vision that humanity had been gestating since man came out of the forests-the golden age of applied science. . . . Why should I mourn the fact that I have come to the end of my length of days?" It is a country of machinery, of the highest approximation of economic justice ever achieved, of medicine, of education, where Indian relics of the Stone Age still lie beside the railroad tracks, and where, in spite...