Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andy Sheridan was a tough guy from Manhattan's brawling East Side, as tough as his father had been before him. When Andy was eight, a neighborhood kid threw caustic in his face, damaging his eyes and giving his face a permanent squint. When he was twelve, his old man hauled him into New York's Children's Court and charged him with stealing his watch. The court sent "Squint" Sheridan to the Catholic Protectory for a year...
...Soviet zone were getting help against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
...John grandly took the law into his own ham hands. The choice was a three-day week or an industrywide shutdown. In order "to remove the stresses & strains which could cause industry and public irritation," he ordered miners east of the Mississippi to go back to work after July 4, but only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays...
...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
From Bangkok to Hanoi, Surgeon May makes his rounds, trotting through an atmosphere of opium and betel nut, respectfully probing the innards of royal concubines, palpating a slew of Somerset Maughamish transplanted Europeans without whom the mysterious East would probably be far less mysterious. Stretched in their hammocks, patting on the suntan oil, most U.S. readers will gladly tag along with...