Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Iva was in Tokyo, either caring for an ailing aunt (according to her) or studying medicine (according to the Government). In November 1943, she went on the air with her slangy, vernacular American, identified herself as "your favorite enemy, Orphan Annie...
Horrified Japanese blamed Red agitation for inspiring the murder. Communist leaders backtracked, delayed strike and slowdown plans on all fronts. Sharp public indignation and the threat of a showdown with either SCAP or the government did not fit into the plans of dapper, greying Communist Strategist Sanzo Nozaka...
Tories wavered between laughter and pro test at this new expropriation. The heraldic description of this new Socialist symbol runs: "Per feese argent and sable three fusils conjoined in feese counter charged. The supporters - on either side a lion sable charged on the shoulder with a sun in splendour or." The board's announcement dotted the "i" of Author J. B. Priestley's comment, printed a day before in the New Statesman and Nation: "We are revolutionaries who have not swept away anything...
Ears & Tails. Of all the animals born at La Punta, about half are males. Only one-fourth turn out to be fighters, and only 5% prove exceptional in their one brief appearance in a ring (where bulls are either killed in fighting, slaughtered for cowardice, or-very rarely-pardoned for1 extreme bravery and sent back to live out their lives as seed bulls). Los diablos negros (the black devils) of La Punta have charged the capes of Belmonte, Manolete, and most of the other great and near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble...
...illegitimate son of an English doctor and a French ballet dancer, Meryon joined the French navy in 1841, resigned after seven years "because I did not feel solid enough, either physically or morally, to wield authority over men . . ." As a lonely alternative he took up painting, switched to etching when he found he was color blind. His technical perfectionism was the despair of Meryon himself ("I should have been a tinker"). Combined with his gloomy appreciation of Paris' medieval buildings, it gave his prints the quality of polished mirrors reflecting a magnificently sinister world. "I see an enemy behind...