Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time for Questions. A unique blend of Mediterranean and Oriental cultures, Macao is the Far East's oldest European colony. It is smaller than Manhattan, and its population (300,000), mostly Chinese, is less than Newark's. Four centuries ago, it became Europe's first port in China. In the 19th Century it was eclipsed by Hong Kong, which is four hours southeast by steamship. It fell into a somnolent decadence, lived shabbily on gambling and other shady practices, until even in the Portuguese homeland it became known as the shameful "city of sin and opium...
NUTS; THE GREAT FIASCO, cried a rude Daily Mail banner headline. It referred to the Labor government's grandiose, three-year-old project of planting a vast acreage of groundnuts (peanuts) in the bush wastes of Tanganyika, East Africa. The nuts were supposed to yield margarine and add extra calories to Britain's meager diet. Last week, Labor bigwigs were reading the first summary of the project's progress by the Overseas Food Corp., which the government created to run the groundnut scheme. It was a most embarrassing report...
...year ago, the books were already in chaos. This did not satisfy one Tory M.P., who exploded: "Damned if any shareholders but the British public would stand for any business of theirs being run this way!" Conservatives were happily whetting their knives for a parliamentary debate on the East African flop later this month...
...Fordham ran wild and smothered favored Georgetown, 42-0. The Fordham team, model 1949, began to evoke memories of the great Ram of old; the match between Fordham's unbeaten Cinderella outfit and awesome, unbeaten Army began to look like the week's big game in the East-even though nobody off the Fordham campus gave the Ram a chance...
...fans sat in West Point's Michie Stadium in a steady drizzle and watched, the big game of the East degenerated into something vaguely resembling the semi-finals of a Golden Gloves boxing tournament...