Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Commissioner Pignon last week called for all Western powers to organize a united front against the Reds in Southeast Asia. It was a little late in the day. Plainly, the Chinese Reds could take Indo-China, the gateway to Southeast Asia, any time they chose...
What is this, he asks the Minister of Agriculture, about a cut in the sugar ration for bees? "Pray let me know what was the amount previously allotted . . . what is the saving?" When, during Churchill's illness with pneumonia, his doctor prescribed a novel for light reading, he chose Defoe's gamy Moll Flanders, "about which I had heard excellent accounts, but had not found time to test them." Having finished it, he gave it to the doctor "to cheer him up. The treatment was successful...
...capacity of 700,000 kw., two-thirds as much as massive Hoover Dam. But supporters of the British view did not explain how Communist China, whose armed forces consist almost entirely of ground troops, hoped to safeguard power plants which U.N. bombers could destroy from the air whenever they chose...
Doctors put on a whizbang campaign. Among scores of groups backing them were the Baltimore Animal Aid Association, the Baltimore Beagle Club and the Lions Club. (Lions are seldom used in research.) At the polls, the people chose to put people ahead of dogs. The vote...
...When I chose the title "Verdure", I knew that this was not the best, but it was the best I could find, I was searching for a verb to suggest a state of becoming rather than a static substantive. There is one word in the German language "Entfaltung" which would be a perfect word for this picture. It incorporates all of unfolding and growing...