Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were all tried-the big, obvious criminals and the men who could argue with some justice that they had only obeyed orders.* According to their lights, the victors had done their best to mete out justice...
...news that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...
...alert editors of Moscow's Pravda, however, were not to be taken in by any such fairy tale. Historical materialism does not recognize Genesis; no less an authority than the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the story of the flood a "myth" which "up until .the 19th Century had done great harm to the sciences." Snorted Pravda last week: "It is quite enough to look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather...
Shirley Temple would reach 21 this week and thus qualify to receive some of the big money she earned as a child cinemactress, including $11,000 won in a libel suit from an English paper that once described her as a 30-year-old midget...
...Some big news came out last week from the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby. If the news proved to be as good as it looked, cancer fighters were in possession of something they have long been looking for: a blood test, almost as simple as the Wassermann, which could divide people into two groups-those who may have cancer, and those...