Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...translate the Chinese slogan on the Mao Tse-tung cover [TIME, Feb. 7] as either UNIFY DEMOCRACY or CONTROL DEMOCRACY...
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...appreciated the fact that he appeared to stand above ordinary Washington politicking. If he was ever devious, it was a deviousness too subtle for the average human eye. On the record, his methods were straight and direct. He sometimes got impatient at congressional questioning, but managed pretty well to cover it up; only occasionally did his voice become edgy and curt. Once, when he was Assistant Secretary, he spent a whole day under the grueling, stubborn fire of one Senator and never cracked-although when he got back to the State Department, the son of the bishop clenched his fists...
...bare boards, 100 to a room-it took Margolin 18 months to get a mattress. They worked nine days out of ten; no Soviet holidays were observed. The only pay was food, and even "100% execution of the work norm was not enough to receive sufficient food." To cover up what was going on, camp commanders in Camp Kotlas received orders in 1945 to list no more deaths caused by malnutrition...
...Peter told the Pacific Congress about the difficult problem of clothes among the Polynesians. Early missionaries, shocked by their healthy nakedness, taught them to cover their shame with long, ugly Mother Hubbards. Now some of this teaching is wearing off. On certain islands, reported Sir Peter, the natives go naked on weekdays, wear their Mother Hubbards only for Sunday churchgoing. "They are in something of a quandary," he explained. "They have observed that the whites, who made them wear clothes, are wearing less & less themselves. 'Perhaps we were right about clothes in the first place,' the Polynesians...