Word: next
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scratches to scurvy; her machinists and radio operators went over the island's radio receiver. Biggest treat of all: a long cinema program in the North Star's saloon. The audience, most of whom had never seen films before, cried out in amazement at shots of Manhattan. Next day, when the North Star's forward donkeys upped anchor and the screws began to turn, the natives stood up in their longboats and with tears in their eyes sang songs of farewell...
...room for large doses of skepticism. Neutral judgment awarded a definite edge to the Germans, whose unveiling of the potent Me-110 was taken to presage a further extension of Germany's attack on Britain's trade and food supply. Having failed with submarines and mines, logical next step might be to bomb Britain's docks. Suitable preparation of world opinion for such action-which would inevitably cost gallons of civilian blood-would be the release of aerial photographs emphasizing military objectives in British ports. Such photographs were lately released in quantity by German censors...
...officers around him, talked with them for three hours. He shook hands all around before retiring. He asked not to be disturbed that night, sat up late writing letters to his wife, parents and the Ambassador. His fellow officers did not need to be told what his aide found next morning: Langsdorff dead, with a bullet from his own pistol through his forehead...
Said Monsignor Sheen: "I never met a person who had a clearer premonition of death. 'Let us hurry,' he would say, 'I may not live another month.' ... At the next to the last instruction, I reminded him of the seriousness of the step which he was about to take. ... He arose from his chair, put his arm around me and said, 'Father, you're worried. You will never regret receiving me into the Church. I promise you that...
...that I provoked this matter. ... I am perfectly willing and happy to receive the letter." While Leon Henderson glowered, Witness Stanley handed out his attack on compulsory competitive bidding, which he and other investment brokers can see as a likely outgrowth of SEC's investigation. Next day it led the TNEC story in metropolitan newspapers. The Morgan Stanley thesis...