Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clubs in Washington. Bunche had gotten his fill of Washington before (as a specialist in OSS and in a State Department desk job). While other officials of his rank lived in the more convenient Northwest section of the city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last March the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel refused a meeting room to the Middle East Institute when...
...which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet Germany...
...Kissing Her Now? Gradually, Shanghai's shopkeepers began to open their stores. The Communists, eager to get business started again, asked the American-owned Shanghai Power Co. to keep the doors of its collection office open even though one corner of the building was still in the line of fire of a few Nationalist snipers still fighting from the buildings along the Bund and Soochow Creek. On the third day of Communist rule, 300 truckloads of political workers and takeover officials chugged into Shanghai. One group, responsible for industry, trade, finance, postal services and telecommunications, set up offices...
Along Nanking Road, Shanghai's main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served...
...Holy Year will begin next Christmas Eve. All through 1950, Roman Catholic pilgrims from every corner of the world will journey to Rome, hoping thereby to earn a plenary indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for forgiven sins). Authorities expect at least a million pilgrim visitors to Rome. To help house the throng, a large hostel is being built near the Vatican, and others on the city's outskirts. The Men's International Association for Catholic Action has set up a nonprofit organization called Felix Roma, to arrange tours allowing each pilgrim ten days in Italy (seven in Rome...