Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Attlee's own account, "I pointed out that a two-way traffic was needed, and that they might propose to their Russian friends the giving of complete freedom to all the satellite states to choose their own governments, the reduction of armaments in the most heavily armed state in the world, Russia, and the cessation of Russian-inspired activities in other countries." Then Mao complained that the U.S. was "aggressive and was seeking to build up a ring of subordinate states from Japan to Indo-China. Whereupon I said: 'As Russia has done in Europe...
Last week the Peking bullyboys -according to their own account -carried off a small. Commando-type raid of Nationalist-held Quemoy, a 70-sq.-mi. bastion (not part of the Pescadores) that lies off the port city of Amoy, only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei...
...which was a mistake; it would be equal folly to think that the West could do without France. France is the key piece of real estate between the Atlantic and the Rhine, the communications line, supply depot, and headquarters of NATO. France still would have to be taken into account...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June...
...store average of 35%), and holds markup down to about 20% (v. the average 40%). By eliminating sales slips. Ohrbach's saves time and trouble for clerks. And by a fast system of recording price tags, Ohrbach's can give each of its 150 buyers a detailed account of the previous day's sales; hot items can be reordered before their sales appeal cools. Twice a week buyers examine the coded sales tags, mark down all items that fail to move quickly. The price cutting continues, even below cost, until the goods are sold. Such practices enable...