Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools fought over grade labeling, over dollars-&-cents ceilings, over how to make OPA orders understandable, over how to work subsidy payments, over making Lou Maxon "general manager" of OPA. Prentiss Brown had not been acting like a strong administrator. Now he told reporters that OPA was not "coming apart at the seams," then admitted he would have to decide between Galbraith and Maxon within the month. This week Galbraith resigned. This might end the internal confusion. It could not stem the outside pressures...
...Puppetry. The Jap has long fought his great Oriental neighbor with three arms - military, economic and political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking...
...walking. They are 50 feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary. . . . It is the terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middleaged. In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory-there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever...
...into the German guts. With their units cut apart, their ranks infiltrated, they became utterly bewildered and could think of no plan of action but surrender. The Germans convinced themselves that they were beaten before they really were...
...have other properties as well. Among the most important: the capacity to take the heavy punishment of deep drawing (i.e., being punched into hollow shape) without wrinkling, cracking, or breaking apart...