Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Governor Driscoll, Ives knows that there is a large difference between presenting constructive alternatives and disagreeing just for the sake of disagreement. "We can't just say, 'no, no, no,'" he said. "We've got to have answers to some of the gigantic problems ... we...
Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier...
Mao responded gracefully to his welcomers. "For many years," he said, "the Soviet people and the Soviet government have repeatedly given aid to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people. These acts of friendship . . . will never be forgotten . . The most important tasks are the strengthening of the [Communist...
"It Teaches Lesson." The gift parcels from people like the Pierces, which for weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world...
As Governor Wu spoke, the last Nationalist troops on the mainland were streaming across the border into Indo-China, and the Chinese Communists held uncontested control of the Asian coastline from the Gulf of Tonkin almost to Vladivostok. Only the remnants of the Nationalist armies stood against the certainty that...