Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village of Mikro Hori, near Karpenisi, is locally renowned for its clear water and beautiful girls. One of the village's brightest jewels was Marianthi Antonopoula, a delicate girl with thick taffy-colored hair. Marianthi now recalls that she hated the "monarcho-fascist" enemies of the "people's democracy." Also, she yearned for adventure and romance. One day, a year ago, she left the village and sought out a battalion of guerrillas who had taken over a nearby monastery...
...wouldn't buy the title [Conde de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe y Peñasco] from Franco if I did have it." Miguel de Rul y Palma, who lives off Mexican real estate and is eligible to be called the Conde de la Valenciana, made it clear that he admired Franco "in all his aspects. But," he added, "I am not paying for the title...
...enormously impressed with the Soviet attitude toward science. It seemed to him that his Russian colleagues enjoyed freedom of discussion, were generous in their appreciation of British and other foreign scientists, and were "anxious to exchange ideas, results and visits." Summing up, Huxley said: "It is certainly clear that without the U.S.S.R., neither a world political organization nor the world's intellectual life can flourish successfully...
Though the summer's first heat wave helped the sales of Goodall Co.'s famed lightweight Palm Beach suits, it left Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward cold as a haddock. To clear the decks for a new, improved suit this fall, he decided to slash his "fair-trade" (i.e., fixed) prices by 29%, from...
Goodall's dealers would get a new wholesale price of $12, but they had paid $17 each for the suits they had on hand. President Ward gave them ten days to clear out their old stocks at the old prices. But one retailer made the mistake of letting the apparel trade's Daily News Record in on the secret. News services spotted the trade-paper item and spread the good news to bargain-hungry U.S. consumers. Result: Goodall's retailers could no longer find anyone foolish enough to pay $27.50 for a Palm Beach...