Word: cha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condoned ... a land rush will be on every time a housing project is ready for occupancy." The Chicago Housing Authority held a staff meeting, sent the squatters letters asking them to get out. It was explained that the apartments had been left vacant, not through carelessness, but because the CHA had insisted on repairs before taking possession. Meanwhile other veterans, who had applied for the disputed apartments through legal channels, also began to protest-some had been waiting for housing for a year...
...fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend and foe said of Tai: "Sha jen pu cha yen citing-He can kill a man without blinking...
with some jived-up poultry poetry: Chickery-chick cha-la cha-la, Check-a-la-romey in a ba-nan-i-ka... .Tin Pan Alley actuarians estimate that...
...explanatory as anyone was ample, well-meaning Contralto Josefina ("Cha-cha") Aguilar, who sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...
...English phonetics which are given for each Italian word. These phonetics provide a reasonable approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...