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Behind the two leaders by three lengths were Kirkland and Dunster, in that order. The Deacons managed to stay a length ahead of Dunster most of the way, although the Funsters crept to within four feet of Kirkland near the finish line...
...nearly 7 p.m. on May Day in Majlis Square. As night crept around the blue minarets of Sepah Salar Mosque, Communist speakers droned on & on, whipping a huge crowd into a frenzy with such battle cries as: 'Long live the great people of China, the freedom-loving people of Korea . . . American tanks and British cruisers can't put us down . . .' Then the May Day chairman, a strike leader from the southern oilfields, stepped to the microphone and shouted: 'We greet the heroic nations of the U.S.S.R. who are at the helm of the democratic front...
...originally provoked by anger at the high price of supposedly 'cheap' cuts of meat turn into an anti-pig story? I find that the Little Piggie story changed and warped the facts in such a way that the snobbish and un-working-class attitudes our readers detected crept in and received the main emphasis rather than the high price of pork -once a staple in the diet of millions...
Saturday night's storm, and the subsequent low temperatures made road travel of any kind difficult, especially after dark, but a large number of vacationing students crept back to College in automobiles...
Parliament reconvened in somber mood last week after a five-week recess. A dark, lowering sky turned afternoon into night, and a damp mist crept into the House of Commons. M.P.s had plenty to worry about-a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy. But one urgent question overshadowed the others...