Word: thought
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...already groaning under inflation problems, felt that the cost of constructing the shelters would be too high. Others predicted that the project would become one vast boondoggle. Governor Frank J. Lausche of Ohio and Nebraska's Governor Val Peterson wanted Congress to give FCDA's plan more thought...
...Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before he departed. Said he: "I thought the Chinamen would like some toast...
...Amerika opened to a packed house. At every political punch line, rhythmic rehearsed applause thundered from one section of the audience. Next day the Communist press dutifully trotted out reviews, though the chore was almost too much for Berliner Zeitung Critic Hans Ulrich Eylau, who cautiously wrote he thought the play's denouement a little hard to take. Gulped Eylau: "This is not to be a critical final judgment. It is just the result of a first encounter with a play that in spite of all its shortcomings is ... an enrichment of our scanty stock of political contemporary poetry...
Beyond this, Pearson had no specific proposals. He thought the Western tune could be played by ear around the conference table. But broadly Canada favored a settlement in which Mao would withdraw from Korea in return for Western concessions-presumably the admission of the Chinese Communists to the United Nations and abandonment of Formosa and Chiang Kaishek...
After due thought, the National Association of Women Artists decided that America's "most stimulating faces" included: Ernest Hemingway, whose face "proclaims, 'I've hair on my chest'"; Cinemactress Ava Gardner, whose face "stimulates desire" and "has the potential explosiveness of the H-bomb"; the New York Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, who "stimulates women's subconscious yearning for the Neanderthal man" with "the most down-to-earth face in America...