Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotter story 2½ miles away. A tough youngster with a gun, chased by the cops, had seized a boy as a shield and was holding off a dozen policemen. The youngster was taking pot shots at the cops, and threatening to shoot his hostage if they came closer...
Economic conferences would start immediately. Moscow, after some-confusion, decided to pull up for a closer look. The Russians complained that they did not know what the Marshall plan meant-or what Bevin and Bidault had been up to-but they agreed to a British-French-Russian exploratory conference in Paris, this week...
With each fast, each boycott, and each imprisonment (by a British Raj which feared to leave him free, feared even more that he would die on their hands and enrage all India), Gandhi came closer to his goal of a free India. With the same weapons he got in some blows at his favorite social evils-untouchability, liquor, landlord extortions, child marriages, the low status of women...
...closer than Queen Victoria's little isle was the Soviet Union which might, like Britain before it, exploit the weakness of a divided India to win hegemony. Already Puran Chandra Jpshi, India's grinning Communist leader,' and other Russian agents had a small (50,000), growing, tightly organized machine within India. If dissension grew in India, Joshi's grin (and Russia's chance) would grow with...
...elements of air defense," says Colonel McCutcheon, "the one that will require the most improvement... is the warning system. . . . Every minute lost in readying active air defense measures will bring [a 3,000-m.p.h.] missile 50 miles closer. . . . Defense may have to remain 100% active every minute of every hour...