Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he be a Christian Scientist. Otherwise he must come through with that $15 per term, $45 for a full year including Summer Term, even though he may be a resident of Cambridge, married, with his own private physician, and a subscriber to the Massachusetts Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which cover almost every medical or surgical need...
...sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems had formerly lived mixed in together, streetcar signs now said "Pakistan Bombay," meaning the Moslem quarter...
...attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...
Part of this cross fire comes from the Falange police state which can refuse jobs to all workers suspected of opposition to the Falange, which keeps some 150,000 political prisoners behind bars, and extends its power into every home in Spain. The common denominator of the Falange's unruly elements is power, and so it is not surprising then that the Falange has turned Spain into a huge guardhouse...
...height. He had eased the strain. Now, to salute the new U.S.Argentine friendship with which Argentines identify Ambassador Messersmith,*President Juan Perón had ordered a rousing sendoff. Earlier in the week he had invited Messersmith to Casa Rosada, decorated him with Argentina's valued Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin, and embraced him while Senator Alberto Teisaire and other big shots applauded...