Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their determination is to drive the Japanese off the soil that they and their fathers have tilled for milenniums. But as the war spreads to other corners of the earth, their struggle has become part of a bigger struggle. The defensive strategy of China dovetails with the defensive strategy of Britain and the U.S. Without realizing it, the embattled farmers of China have become allies of the fighting shopkeepers of the British Empire. If Suez should fall, the Chinese farmers would probably find their enemies turning to attack the Indies. If the Yangtze Gorges should fall, the defenders...
...Westminster Kennel Club show, Manhattan's 65-year-old annual, is tantamount to the national show-dog championship of the U.S. But the Westminster is not the biggest, richest or most spectacular dog show in the world. The show that is all these things-bigger than England's famed Cruft's-is the Morris & Essex...
...announcement showed they faced a mighty task: "I shall take along with me the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, an inbred and inerasable common touch with the common man and I hope your unceasing prayers." He spoke of his "old, old friend the President," urged more and bigger pensions and fewer strikes. He ended with a poem...
...runs to 656 pages, contains some 300,000 words, each of which was put there with evident care. It attends to its business with the strict energy a good boxer would use in cutting down a bigger man. Its business: "To follow these books through their implications . . . to assess them in relations to one another and to the drift of our literature since, and, so far as possible, to evaluate them in accordance with the enduring requirements for great art." One of its five subjects inevitably emerges as the greatest writer the U.S. has yet produced. Matthiessen does not pick...
...fire, knives, legalistic arguments were of no avail in the face of a bigger issue. Ex-Senator Matt Neely was a friend of the Administration, and last week the Administration could still dig up enough political debtors, scrape together enough votes to run the Senate. The president of Fairmont State Teachers College got his job by just two votes...