Word: blacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Balchin seems to find it sad that such an enterprising young man should have been thwarted in his precocious effort to create a unified Italy. Most readers, while enjoying the suavity of the Balchin tour de force, will still feel that Cesare was a lot blacker than Author Balchin's whitewash suggests...
Williams will provide the competition for the freshman tennis team his afternoon in the sequestered Berkshire resort of Williamstown. Blacker, Aldrich, Murphy, Thompson, Tangen and an undermined sixth man will play singles for the Crimson...
...Communist Budapest, where the shadow of the Kremlin grows longer and blacker every day, they were telling an old story* to cheer themselves up. Two workers, Erno and Lajos (Magyar for Pat & Mike), were discussing whether life under the people's republic was better than the old days. "Obviously it is," said Erno. "Why?" asked Lajos. "Well," said Erno, "in the old days you lived in a cold, dirty flat, ate a few crusts of bread for breakfast, and then shivered on the street waiting for a tram. After a long, hard day you returned to your flat...
...Schuman could see an even blacker cloud on the immediate horizon. The six-power London agreement to set up a provisional Western German government would soon have to be laid before the Assembly for ratification. The Communists, of course, were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...
American newspapers paint a blacker picture of China than exists, Roscoe Pound, University Professor emeritus and adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Justice, reported today...