Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century ago there was really no pressing need for a University sponsored health program. Most of the student body came from well-to do eastern fantails and had personal physicians. It is interesting to note that when the University finally appointed a "Medical Visitor" in 1823 he was instructed...
...nowhere near their ceilings. Coffee, for example has sold consistently several cents below the government's limit. With other products, moreover, the price has been set so artificially low as to create shortages. DiSalle's decision last year on the price of fuel oil for homes on the Eastern seaboard is a case in point. The Gulf Company's refusal to sell at a loss produced a dearth of oil which was alleviated only when the Petroleum Administration for Defense (which is independent of the OPS) persuaded eleven large companies to enter a voluntary agreement to sell oil below cost...
...after midnight one night last week, some 750 Chinese Reds tried to storm a western-front strong point called T-Bone Hill, after stealthily cutting the U.N. barbed wire in the darkness. The next night, after an artillery and mortar barrage of 2,500 rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said...
...French liner Champollion plowed through the squally eastern Mediterranean one day last week on course for Beirut, capital of Lebanon. Aboard were 111 passengers, most of them Christmas pilgrims bound for the Holy Land, and 212 crewmen skippered by Captain Henri Bourde, a taciturn French salt who knows the Levantine seas like the back of his gnarly hand...
...seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare of modern Russia at breakneck speed, tracing Mark Surov's career through the civil war in Moscow during the infancy of the revolution, and then a gruesome interval as commissar in Far Eastern Siberia...