Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, workers were voicing thoughts which would not even have popped into their heads a few months ago. Said a mechanic, grumbling over an announced renewal of gas rationing: "Why should we have gas rationing when the rest of the world is doing away with rationing? We are a rich country. We must have been badly governed." Many an Argentine worker would nod in solemn agreement...
Night Tribute. Meanwhile, other Central Americans said a requiescat of another sort last week. Just 15 years ago Tacho's Guardia had cut down his old rival, Augusto Sandino. On the night of the anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...
...Paris, the Ago Khan checked into the American Hospital for a prostate operation and a month's recuperation...
...chanteuse, was rehearsing for her first postwar Folies Bergére. The angular grace, the crossed-eyes mugging and full-throated hollering seemed like the old Jo, even under considerably more costume than the girdle of bananas which first made her the light brown toast of Paris 23 years ago...
...campus, almost no one had known or cared about the two professors who had been fired at Oregon State College. A few weeks ago President A. L. Strand had simply told them that, after June, their yearly contracts would not be renewed. Since he had given them "timely notice," he saw no reason to explain...