Word: cements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human mind, even the Communist mind, turns toward order. In a land where brother cannot trust brother, fear of the policeman must serve instead. The policeman has to be everywhere, because there is no other cement in the society. The spy, the informer and the censor are the aristocrats of the Communist world. The cop at the keyhole is king...
...Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...
...impassive Lord Inverchapel. His glittering reputation spanned more than 40 years of service in most of the world's capitals (Moscow, Chungking, Bagdad, etc.). But once in the U.S., Inverchapel became known as "the invisible Ambassador." He studiously avoided the press, ducked official parties, made no effort to cement all-important friendships on Capitol Hill. Last week, after 20 months in his post, Lord Inverchapel learned over the embassy's news ticker that his orders for home had finally come...
...words as they transcribed messages to be sent to their families, wept as the record was played back to them. Tall, dark-haired Arthur Reppeto had best told the thoughts of all six: "I never think things in Cape Town is as they is.... The streets, there's cement in 'em. Place is luvverly. And now closing with luv to arl on the Hisland...
...river bank the procession came to a field as different as possible from the glittering Taj Mahal. This field looked like a junkyard. Here & there water buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...