Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II began, her memories sent her back into action. In May 1941, Mrs. Wickenden left her home and two daughters in Bronxville, N.Y., to set up the Red Cross Nurse's Aide program in Washington. Five months later, back in New York as executive secretary of the National Nursing Council for War Service, she was working harder and longer than ever before in her life. She had a major share in organizing the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, recruiting 179,000 student nurses and mobilizing more than 76,000 professionals for the Army & Navy-in short, assuring...
...masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...
...weeks ago there was a chance that Attlee might have to yield the leadership to a bigger Laborite. He and his Government had lost prestige at home and abroad. But now Attlee is over the worst of his qualms. He is banking on the Cripps production and export program, Dalton's emergency dollar measures, and the coming ministerial changes to restore British and world confidence...
...competition. This week a comedian made it. Jack Paar, an unpredictable young man (29) with a windblown sense of humor, was kept on by the American Tobacco Co. and given cozy quarters (9:30 to 10 p.m.-between Abbott & Costello and Bing Crosby) on ABC's Wednesday night program powerhouse...
...relationship between NSA and the year-old International Union of Students. From its headquarters in Prague, the I.U.S. had steered a course far closer to the mores and ideologies of students in Soviet-oriented countries than to those of U.S. campuses. But the I.U.S. boasts a constructive service program embracing relief and low-cost travel; only a tiny minority wanted to shy away completely from I.U.S. affiliation. What most delegates looked for--and evolved--was an affiliation scheme which would carry with it complete NSA independence from I.U.S. political activities...