Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALICE M. PICKERING Black Earth...
...distribution of wealth in this country is far from equable or general, but it is wider than anywhere else on earth. The distribution, more than the accumulation [of wealth], irks the Soviet leaders, because it underlines the pregnant fact that there is no communism in the Marxist sense in the Soviet Union, and no capitalism in the U.S. as it was conceived in Das Kapital...
...Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should launch an unprovoked attack upon any country on earth . . . No military man before us recommended complete preparation for war. Nothing would please a potential enemy better than to have us bankrupt our country and destroy our economy by maintaining complete readiness for armed conflict." As it is, added Mahon, "This year we will appropriate for national defense more than...
Eight of them were dead almost as soon as the earth beneath their feet began to lurch. Falling bricks or masonry killed an eleven-year-old schoolboy in Tacoma, an 18-year-old student in Castle Rock, a 70-year-old man in Centralia and a 62-year-old steamfitter in Olympia. Three old men and a woman died of heart attacks. Dozens of others suffered broken bones, bruises or wounds from flying glass...
...ancient rites. Happy as New Orleans folk at Mardi Gras, they went about laughing and dousing each other with water. It was the Thingyan or Water Festival, the Burmese New Year celebration occasioned by the annual visit of the great god Thi-gya-min (King of Good Spirits) to earth...