Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was so miserable one sergeant swore: "In the next war I ain't even gonna plant a victory garden." The Japs weren't too numerous, but Hill 660 was steep and slippery and it rained all the time. "The wells of fountain pens clogged; pencils came apart at the seams in less than a week, blades of pocket knives rusted together," McMillan remembers. Shellfire caused giant, rotten trees to tremble and fall; 25 men died as victims of such odd accidents of jungle fighting...
Elated over his comeback, Bossy immediately began planning some gentle, dignified changes. "I'm gonna bring some of the old zang back to Newburyport," he promised. "My first act will be to tear the police department apart and then fire the fire chief. I'm gonna give the highway department quite a shellacking and there are gonna be some new faces around city hall...
...Titoism' in China, it is generally assumed that all satellites must be treated alike by the Russians without any degrees of dependence. There have been signs that they are willing to accept from China a much looser form of attachment than is required from the East European satellites. Apart from the vast extent and remoteness of China, the fact that the Chinese Communists have had an army and territory of their own for more than twenty years . . . puts the Chinese in a different category from all other non-Soviet Communists...
...Apart from Herrin and the Sins, the most ambitious picture in the show was a summer landscape seething with happy nudes and entitled What I Believe. The painting did not make Cadmus' belief plain (unless he had meant to plump for nudism and close quarters), but it did at least indicate, said Cadmus, "that I don't really hate people...
Only Tito cannot be criticized in Yugoslavia, Vilfan stated, explaining his country's "reverence" for its leader. "We put Tito quite apart," he said...