Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point where he was able to force the Hindus and the British to split India into two dominions. He became governor general of Pakistan. With the split came the riots. His part in them will not soon be forgotten by Hindus. Last week, when news of his death reached New Delhi's bazaars, there was bitter exultation. A Hindu refugee said...
...scare them, they will scare you." Last week he had Shanghai's fat merchants badly scared. Before a cheering "Youth Army" audience Chiang declared: "It does not matter if pork and perfume disappear from the markets. So long as the people are not starved to death, it does not matter if all the department stores and big restaurants are closed . . . Our new economic policy is a socialistic revolutionary movement...
...Lawrence the 1,445-ton French frigate, L'Aventure, had been idling for days awaiting an important passenger: Count Jacques Juge de Bernonville, 50. A wartime collaborator, he had been sentenced to death in France for "violence, treason, arson and looting." As soon as Canada handed him over, L'Aventure would rush him home. But L'Aventure would not sail right away. De Bernonville was in the middle of a political row between Quebec nationalists and the federal government...
...cables made up of many hollow tubes about one-millionth of an inch in diameter. The discovery gave them an idea. The "neuro-tubules" seemed ideally adapted for conducting submicroscopic objects around the body. Perhaps, thought the doctors, they conducted the polio virus on its missions of paralysis and death...
There were reliquaries designed to look like tiny cathedrals, and a portrait plaque made for the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet (Count of Anjou and father of England's Henry II), in which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold...