Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India and Pakistan's bitter wrangle over Kashmir has lasted more than a month at Lake Success. Both have gone over & over the same ground, disagreed, referred the dispute back to the Security Council, postponed meetings; they suspended their debates after Gandhi's death, resumed private discussions. Last week, for the first time, the Security Council heard from a native of harried Kashmir, one who had come 8,000 miles to make his speech...
...easiest. Their shortend stretch-204 miles out of a total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind...
...newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
...continue to rage with a tenfold fury . . . towards those who have not yet satisfied their lust for profits derived from the blood of millions and who, in their satanic and blind folly, are preparing a new war for suffering humanity. . . . The time will surely come for their inevitable death by hanging. . . . Let our indestructible hatred of them continue. It will come in handy at the right moment...
Walnut Panels. After his death in 1924, the Chamber dropped much of the old flamboyance. In the oak-mahogany-walnut-paneled offices in the Chamber's own nine-story building, there is a full-time staff of 150 go-getters headed by able, 44-year-old General Manager Harold Wright. The staff is actively supported by some 13,400 members who serve on the Chamber's scores of committees, a board of 49 directors which meets once a week, a president who customarily spends about half his time on Chamber work...