Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian-born Lord Beaverbropk, publisher of London's high-powered Daily Express, Sunday Express and Evening Standard, celebrated his yoth birthday at a luncheon given by 600 employees. The Beaver's birthday resolutions...
...suicide and moral decay; it is now higher than at any time since records were first kept in the 18th Century. On the eve of World War II the rate was 14.6 per 1,000 population. It has risen to 19.6. Reported Paris last week: 864,000 babies were born in France in 1948-as against 612,000 in 1939. The death rate was down: 506,000 in 1948 as against 642,000 in 1939. In the past three years, French population has increased by nearly 1,000,000, is now back to its prewar size...
...asked a tough Jalisco-born busman, "to throw off a guitarrista who sings so sweetly of my birthplace? Do you hear what he is playing?" At the back of the bus, grinning broadly, the troubador sang a song from Jalisco-Cuando Mueren los Valientes (When Brave...
Miller, who specialized in congressional relations and economic conferences on his first tour at State, was born in Puerto Rico, learned Spanish as a boy in Cuba. He picked up fair Portuguese during wartime years as the Rio embassy's expert on seized Axis property. Miller's views on Latin American affairs may be expected to agree closely with those of Secretary Acheson, whom he calls "the one hero I've had in my life...
Robert Salau was born about 42 years ago on densely wooded Vella Lavella, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons group. His mother had been captured by his father's head-hunting tribe in a raid on another island. ("My people heathen, you know-killing one another.") When the Adventists set up a school in the beach village, young Salau ran away from home to join, and eventually became a pastor. Now, he estimates he has had a hand, in converting some 2,000 natives in the Pacific islands. Says Salau...