Word: donning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"This courtesy was extended at my own personal expense in behalf of the P.O. Department as an expression of love and good will at Christmas time ... I certainly did not want to stop this year, the first year we are third class. I don't want the public to...
Now at a peak strength of 5,000 men, Macao's defenders crowd the little colony so that it appears armed to the teeth. But, as one high officer observed: "It's just a face-saving army. We don't have enough men to stop anything at...
Whistling in the Dark? Unlike the British in Hong Kong, the Portuguese say they have little to fear from agitation inside the colony. For years there has been a small Communist cell in Macao, perhaps 200 intellectuals, mostly doctors, lawyers and teachers. "We have them spotted," said a Portuguese police...
"I don't like jazz," said the Archbishop of Canterbury, "although no doubt there is good and bad. It is one of my links with life I have not developed-yet."
In Madrid, Surrealist Salvador Dali put on his own version of Don Juan Tenorio, Spain's traditional All Souls' Day show. "I am too much of a Spaniard and a necrophile," he said cheerfully, "to miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw...