Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March with Mr. Soviet. The Reds marched 6,000 miles. They passed through twelve provinces, crossed 18 mountain ranges, and 24 rivers. Intermittently they fought with Nationalists, but they got away each time, with heavy losses. The marchers had started out with a huge train of supplies, but they had to abandon most of it on the way. It is said that Mao Tse-tung, then married to his third wife (Ho Tse-chun, a schoolteacher), abandoned their five children on the way, leaving them in the care of peasants...
...Plata's boom was brought by: 1) Argentina's hottest summer in 16 years; 2) currency difficulties that kept most Argentines away from Uruguay's resorts; 3) plenty of inflated pesos. Some of the pesos were flung away by newly rich industrialists plunging at punto y banco, a South American version of baccarat. But most of the money came from the pockets of vacationing descamisados, who preferred roulette. The casino's main hall looked like Macy's basement as players pushed and shoved to bet at the 71 roulette tables. Most of them ignored...
...cameras got action right away. Louis St. Laurent rose to make his first appearance in Parliament as Prime Minister and leader of the reigning Liberal Party. He was tense and nervous. Directly across the aisle from him sat George Alexander Drew, the new boss of the rival Progressive Conservative Party. St. Laurent started to read the traditional greeting. It turned out to be a backhanded slap at Conservative Party policy. "Politics . . . cheap politics," cried the Tory M.P.s...
Playwright Noel Coward (Private Lives) arrived in Manhattan, took in a few Broadway shows, sailed away for his annual winter sunning in Jamaica...
...pickets from the American Veterans Committee and other organizations, paraded in front of Carnegie Hall with placards (GIESEKING PLAYS TONIGHT-WILL ILSE KOCH PLAY SATURDAY? GIESEKING PLAYS TO THE TUNE OF 6,OOO,OOO MURDERED JEWS, etc.), the concert was canceled. A sellout crowd of 2,760 was turned away. Gieseking flew off for Paris...