Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were already signs that the crop, while large, would not be as big as forecast. In Iowa,the nation's biggest corn producer, the corn borer had done more damage than ever before. A dry summer had also hurt a bit. The Department of Agriculture lopped off almost 80 million bushels from its original lowa crop estimate of 662 million bushels. Then one day last week, the wind came...
Wrote the big leader to the little boss: "The experience of the last war has shown that the German and Soviet peoples made the largest sacrifice in that war, that both these peoples have the largest potentialities in Europe to complete great actions of world significance ... I wish you success on this new and glorious road. Long live and prosper the unified, independent, democratic, peace-loving Germany...
...have always recognized," Dr. Summerskill told a Market Research Society meeting in London, "that there is one thing the British housewife longed for, and that was to get back to bacon & eggs. I am sure," she admitted, "that every man here longs for a nice big juicy steak." But such yearnings, she insisted, were in reality nothing but an anachronistic hangover from the days of arrant capitalism when "meat was an index of prosperity," when men "ate steaks [because] it was the thing to do, like wearing a white stiff collar . . ." Enlightened Socialism "had established new feeding habits showing themselves...
...watch the massive, drafty Soviet embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Istanbul. Russian cars are trailed relentlessly. (Sometimes four or five Russians will dash out, separate, pile into different automobiles before the one or two Turkish police can figure out which car to follow.) Counter-espionage is big business here. From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery police often resort...
...hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied with one dress and one pair of slippers. There are now so many of us who want, oh, so many small and big things...