Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make her way to the church and light a candle to St. Mary. On her way back she stops to see her friend, the butcher. "Is my son a traitor?" she asks him then. "Is that what people...
...Paris last week: 864,000 babies were born in France in 1948-as against 612,000 in 1939. The death rate was down: 506,000 in 1948 as against 642,000 in 1939. In the past three years, French population has increased by nearly 1,000,000, is now back to its prewar size...
...asked a tough Jalisco-born busman, "to throw off a guitarrista who sings so sweetly of my birthplace? Do you hear what he is playing?" At the back of the bus, grinning broadly, the troubador sang a song from Jalisco-Cuando Mueren los Valientes (When Brave...
...each Russian issue are written in English in Amerika's twelfth-floor Manhattan offices, then flown to Moscow for translation and censorship. There unpredictable Soviet bureaucrats sometimes take ten days, sometimes ten weeks, to approve an issue before returning it to the U.S. to be printed and shipped back to Moscow. This long, fluctuating deadline means that most stories and pictures must be "timeless Americana." But out of 3,000,000 words, Moscow has deleted only about...
...once sent a dead mouse through one of the pneumatic tubes connecting Chicago's four daily newspapers with the City News Bureau. Two minutes later, "City Press," which prides itself on its speedy service, shot back a box of rat poison. For live news, it moves even faster; on big stories it sometimes pops 2,000' words a minute through the 40-m.p.h. tubes...