Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only too clearly that he is incapable of enjoying the beautiful things he has gathered around...
...products make it next to impossible for anyone but the government to export. Imported consumer goods are priced beyond reach of the average Formosan. "The Chinese are squeezing us," complain the islanders. "They put everything into their pockets. They act like people who don't plan to be around very long. The Japanese at least furnished us with the cloth and consumer goods we needed...
...course on its members. Undergrounders expect that the revolution will be started in the army, which has been divided by rival factions since the day it booted out Gallegos. At first the schism was confined to garrison commanders who refused to cooperate with the junta. Lately, word has gone around that the division exists within the junta itself...
...yelled 'marlin,' and before he snapped the line off the outrigger I was in the chair." Hooked on an 18-oz. lemonwood rod, the maddened marlin streaked ahead of the Schmidts' 40-ft. Cayman II flashing high in the sun. When John turned the boat around, the fish headed for the bottom. Said Louis, "For three hours I had my leg hooked around everything except the keel...
Rising Land. Mount Usu stayed quiet, but for six months the ground around it shook every day. A square-mile area of terraced grain fields to the east rose slowly until the land could no longer be cultivated. The villagers of Fukaba (pop. 153) came to Postmaster Mimatsu for advice. Since there had been no actual eruption, he assured them that the rising would stop soon...