Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime capital, smoothly persuading China's U.S. allies (particularly the newsmen at the Press Hostel) of the Communists' good intentions. In Washington last week, General Wedemeyer remembered Chou as a "charming individual." Chou lived in the poorest section of the city in a house with a dirt floor and rude peasant furniture. His manner was all modesty and humility. Later in Nanking, his blandishments worked well enough to convince General Marshall, who spoke of "friendship and personal esteem" for Chou, that "there is a definite liberal group among the Communists . . . who would put the interests of the Chinese...
...foundation under the gray building is dirt and concrete 15 feet down. All the walls are filled concrete--the outer one three feet thick and the inner one, surrounding the cyclotron, six feet thick...
From the Korean central front TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert cabled: THE aid station, a big, green-canvas structure, was warm with the heat of a single stove and bright with the glare of eight electric bulbs. Its dirt floor was muddy at the entrance, where the wind blew the rain in through the flaps. Outside, an artillery battery fired steadily to the north. The concussion drummed on the ears, of the men inside...
...sunrise, both the note and the coat-hangers had disappeared. The tombstone was taken away, leaving a mound of dirt to puzzle students. Rumors about a rampant Scottish Nationalist circulated about the Yard. No one guessed the real sentiment behind the "monument...
...weather-beaten gray tombstone with grass and dirt still clinging to its bottom was mysteriously deposited in the Dunster House Superintendent's office yesterday. There is no clue as to how the stone got in the office...