Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last March India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said: "Strong winds are blowing all over Asia. Let us not be afraid of them but rather welcome them, for only with them can we build the new Asia of our dreams." Last week, in the lands where more than half the human race lives, the winds bore the taint of death...
...Devil. While his adopted town was decaying, Horner forged ahead, became one of the first members of Britain's Communist Party, visited Russia, helped build up his union into one of Britain's strongest. He achieved genuine betterment of the British miners' lot, and they loved...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
...They're gonna have to have a new levee," he said, "or I'm gonna leave town. Year after year, I been takin' this water in pretty good humor. But no longer. Either they build a levee, or I'm takin' to the hills...
...polo-playing set around Fairfield, Conn., Margaret Rudkin was merely the pretty, red-haired wife of a polo-playing stockbroker-until her son got sick. She thought that bread might be a good thing to build up his strength. Not store bread, but old-fashioned homemade bread. Mrs. Rudkin got out a bread recipe left by her grandmother. It called for flour to be milled by stone in the old-style way, quantities of whole milk and butter. So Mrs. Rudkin rolled up her sleeves, ground some wheat into flour in a coffee mill and baked bread in her kitchen...