Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along this same corridor lies a chunk of Rumania. Since last summer, Russians have been arriving in large numbers. Rumania's vital Black Sea port, Constanta, now has some 50,000 of them-as many Russians as there are Rumanians. They have their own schools, shops, theaters and restaurants. In most Rumanian cities King Michael's photo is flanked by those of Rumanian Premier Petru Groza and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin; in Constanta bars, shops and hotels, Stalin's photo gets the center...
India, moreover, slightly inebriated by the scent of independence in the air, wants payment to the last rupee. They ask that a large chunk of the debt be paid off at once, another chunk by 1950, and the rest...
Although the primary purpose of the current Byrd and Rome expeditions is scientific, Professor Rice sees the southernmost continent as more than just a chunk of ice which can "tell us something about the structure of the earth...
...alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...Crowd Psychology in terms of a revival meeting once held in Boston by the eminently practical Aimee Semple MacPherson. Even the professional resenters of classroom humor avowed it was better than the comics, but, unobtrusively, each step in Aimee's spellbinding was made to correspond to a formidable chunk of psychological verbiage...