Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within 48 hours, more facts came out. The explosion in Russia did not equal the intensity of the Alamogordo bomb, much less the later Eniwetok bomb. It had been set off deep in Russia, over land, not under water; the date of the explosion was somewhere around Sept...
...list of hopeful plans waiting; some of them dated as far back as 1910. But in Pittsburgh a "must" from a Mellon list gets done, especially when the Mellon himself gets busy and sees that it is done. R. K. Mellon took up his ideas with his colleagues around the Duquesne Club: such men as Pickleman H. J. ("Jack") Heinz II, Edgar Kaufmann of Kaufmann Department Store, U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless, Alcoa's Roy Hunt. Some of them products of a new age, all of them had a conception of the responsibilities of wealth that...
There was only one thing new on the Russian merry-go-round as it wheeled around to the same old tune: it had one rider less than before. The old East-West split of 53-to-6 had now become 54-10-5. The vagrant vote came from the grinning, youthful-looking Yugoslav delegates who sat in the row behind Vishinsky, seeming to rejoice in their freshly asserted break from Mother Russia...
...Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
...chewing gum or cigarettes to their Japanese friends, male or female. The G.I.s can also take their girls to Japanese movies without worrying about MPs. They are free to enter Japanese theaters, restaurants, hotels or hospitals, and to be entertained by Japanese friends in their homes. They may travel around Japan without official, written permission, and it is all right for them to compete in "all sports" with the Japanese, who are anxious to match some of their baseball teams against service outfits...