Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zion. . . If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. In part it was as old as man's desire to be free, now manifested in Arab determination to win independence. In part it was as old (and as new) as the facts of 20th Century power politics...
Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
...Smoky (20th Century...
...Anna and the King of Siam (20th Century...
When Charlie Skouras & associates offered to sell their shares back to National last month, they asked a price ($7,415,000) that seemed way over the stock's value. Even the directors of 20th Century-Fox, of which National is a subsidiary (and of which Charlie's brother Spyros is president), pointed out that it would take 15 years for the managers' investment to bring in the difference they asked. Then how had the price been...