Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever three or four women squat beside piles of grain and peppers, there is Harar's market place. Before the town's Law Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood...
Eritrea. Pride has been scant for the homebodies of Italy lately, but last week the name Cheren filled them with it. On the high escarpment near the town known as Sancheil Briggs Peak, the Italians had put up their bravest fight of the African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade...
Britons' hunger is conditioned by two thing.: 1) the scarcity of refrigerator cargo space, 2) the constant bombing of gas mains, which puts a premium on food that does not have to be cooked. They also want the maximum of food in the minimum of space. This means they want as much of their meat as possible in tins, which is not the way the U. S. is accustomed to packing it. The Argentine tins meat, but can supply the British only to the extent that the U. S. can send her tin plate (which she normally gets from...
...talent, and will serve also to bring that vague and elusive quality of cohesion to the Freshman class. But all is not milk and honey for the PBH Committee. It must enlist the careful help of hall proctors in choosing various managers for the activities, and must keep a constant eye on the program itself. Oiling helps any machine to work, and Freshman intra-murals are almost sure of success if they get the right treatment...
...Japanese this constant infiltration of supplies has been a Class-A problem, for no kind of raiding could stop it. In January of this year a full 17% of China's imports passed through the railhead at Liuchow, south of Kweilin. These are official figures; by unofficial estimates far more supplies were transshipped there...