Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not openly reject the plea. "Your message has been received," he wired back. "Our party is very willing to adopt lenient policies." But his heart was not in his terse reply; his heart was with his troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...
...Editor Dorothy Thackrey he ran the Post Home News. But the husband & wife team didn't get along very well. During the election, when Ted was for Wallace and Dolly for Dewey, they quarreled publicly in the Post, and privately in their penthouse apartment. The argument did not end with the election, and in January Dolly Thackrey had a heart-to-heart talk with her husband...
...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
...town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking the law into his own hands). Before finally arriving at the right answer, Payne and his vigilante friends string up a number of their enemies to nearby trees...
...Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose judgment did not spring from logic but from sense...