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...corrupt and reactionary is not the main issue with the Korean voters. The major difficulty is that his government is impotent. Its naive, clumsy attempts to feed, clothe, and house the Korean people have failed. Such a leadership vacuum cannot last much longer. If Rhee and his faction bide their time until pro-Communist reformers are voted into office, then the objectives of the UN forces in Korea will have been lost...
President Truman Indicated yesterday he will bide his time with Congress before deciding whether to take issues to the people. He told a news conference he still believes a labor bill can be worked out without concessions to the opposition, and also expressed happiness over the Big Four agreement on the Berlin blockade lifting...
...Reader Hydock bide his time. Professor Kinsey's second volume, Sexual...
...stand his wife, gives a faintly amusing twist to a serious theme. The imagery is precise, bold, and unpretentious, as "Making himself speak to her was like biting into something spoiled and sour." "Jazz Man" is old stuff (a washed-up musician tries to bide the fact from himself), but that doesn't matter, for the telling is fresh and exciting. Here too violence plays its part, and so does sentiment, and here too both are nicely restrained...
...probable that Russia will reply with any warlike attitude. She is in no position to challenge the power of the United States at this time. She will bide her time. She will wait until she is in possession of actual manufactured atomic bombs and until the Communist Parties have infiltrated further into the defense installations and the general populations of North and South America...