Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overrun by history, just like Syngman Rhee.") Simultaneously, the Socialist argument that it was senseless for West Germany to introduce conscription at a time when other nations were reducing conventional forces took on new plausibility. Last week both of West Germany's leading polls showed substantial Socialist gains amongst the voters, making them for the first time about equally as strong as Adenauer's Christian Democrats...
...know. They haven't had me examined that way yet!" After an hour of such empty pleasantries, Host Bohlen escorted B. & K. out through a pet project of Mrs. Bohlen-a corn patch in the embassy's backyard. Somewhat full of corn himself, Khrushchev stepped right amongst the stalks, plucked at the leaves, advised Hostess Bohlen cheerfully: "These leaves need thinning...
Organ: The widespread impression amongst a section of the musical public that a unit organ consists of about a dozen vox humanas and a powerful tremulant is based upon observation of the performances of the injudicious...
...fact, amongst the many who get into messes deserve to be fussed over as invalids and who should be required . . . to carry for themselves the responsibilities of normal healthy men and women...
...father, Woods Eastland, steadily increased its size. "Judge" Woods Eastland was a lawyer by profession, and his practice was in Forest (pop. 1,500), in the hill coufitry about 100 miles from Doddsville. It was there that Jim grew up-a wellborn Delta planter's son set down amongst planter-hating "rednecks." Jim and his father were inseparable, but somehow Woods Eastland's rollicking geniality never rubbed off on his son, and Jim grew up cold, reserved and somewhat arrogant. Said a clerk in a Forest general store last week: "I hear folks say what a grand...