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...doing the university a great disservice. They should not be retained." At one point, a professor from the faculty committee broke in. Said he: "Rather than having caught Communists, you have caught the free and independent spirits of the university, and if you disregard our report, you will crush great spirits and destroy great scholars...
...were doing little to help keep prices down; their growing rush to stock up on nylons, tires, sugar and anything else they felt like hoarding was creating shortages where none existed. In Kansas City, when department stores hiked the price of nylons from $1.35 to $2 a pair, the crush to buy grew even bigger. In Atlanta, Davison's department store sold as many television sets in two weeks as in three previous months...
Fortnight ago, the Soviet government sent a formal protest to Washington. U.S. flyers, said the note, were dropping Colorado beetles on East German potato fields. The Estonian republic set up a people's democratic bug watch to crush the six-legged tools of Wall Street. Czechoslovakia's Red regime piped up, six days later, and said that someone had been sprinkling potato bugs on Czech fields...
...that time the French were up to their necks in a costly campaign to crush Ho Chi Minh and his Communist bid for power. The civil war has cut rice production in half and disrupted the rest of Indo-China's economy. It has tied down 130,000 French troops, about half of the Fourth Republic's army, and thereby weakened the contribution France might make to Western Europe's defense. In lives, the Indo-China war has cost the French 50,000 casualties. In money, it has cost $2 billion-just about the sum of ECAid...
With the start of the third period, however, the Red and Grey exploded. Before the rumbling died away, Exeter had scored 11 goals to crush the freshmen...