Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book of verse before your eyes, you come a bit closer to understanding Hangchow's appeal-and maybe to understanding China and her people...
...found a minor miracle of family planning. Seven people lived, cooked, ate and slept in this space, whose only privacy was a tiny curtained cubicle behind a big brick Russian stove, on top of which a boy slept at night. The room, a salvaged bit of cellar with a 2 by 3 ft. window, was as neat as ninepence...
Stuart wanted to make it perfectly clear that he had never disliked John Frank. "He was a very nice fellow," he said. But he had to admit that he didn't feel the least bit sorry. With an apologetic chuckle he confided: "I have no remorse at all. That's the bad part about it ... I shouldn't go on murdering people...
...adviser, 59-year-old Nuri Pasha, who fought for the British in World War I, is one of the few Arab statesmen who will publicly say what many secretly think-that until the world has settled down a bit, Arabs had better rely on British support. Last week Nuri said it again: "If [the United Nations] proves unable to provide security, we shall have to find other means to guarantee our safety." Everyone knew that by "other means" he meant a continued alliance with the British. Nuri added that there would probably be no early revision of the 1930 Anglo...
...friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. All were written in contemporary French . . . which . . . certainly . . . made it easier for [the purchaser] to read them. . . . Lucas was on the point of selling him the original manuscript-in French-of the Sermon on the Mount . . . when he was unmasked...