Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, workers were voicing thoughts which would not even have popped into their heads a few months ago. Said a mechanic, grumbling over an announced renewal of gas rationing: "Why should we have gas rationing when the rest of the world is doing away with rationing? We are a rich country. We must have been badly governed." Many an Argentine worker would nod in solemn agreement...
...Defense Minister, in charge of air, naval and ground forces. Army pressure unquestionably had been a decisive factor in forcing onetime Economic Czar Miguel Miranda out of office and probably could do the same thing to Perón, if the army chose to. At week's end, Buenos Aires sources reported that the President had already suggested that he resign, only to be told to stay where he was and see the trouble through. The army might fire a president when it was good & ready; last week army chiefs may have suspected that Perón would like...
Tacho's fat-pig policy was paying off. For diehard Nicaraguan exiles, the legion's end meant that nothing short of a thunderbolt could now topple Tacho. Homesick and penniless, they had begun drifting back to make their peace with the porky dictator. He was glad to see them: "I want all Nicaraguans home. I like to have 'em close, so I can keep an eye on them, bless...
...week's end, the telecasters of California were holding a meeting to draw up some sort of a code for TV behavior. Sixty members of the Television Producers' Association appointed a committee to look into such controversial matters as cleavage, the time permitted for a kiss, and the proposed editing of wrestling matches to eliminate "suggestive positions...
...week's end, when San Antonio concertgoers got to hear Joseph, most agreed. First they heard broad phrases in full orchestra, then passages, with the simple serenity of Mozart, depicting the character of Joseph. Later, in the temptation by Potiphar's wife, the music became sensuously dissonant, almost Oriental, reminding some listeners of Salome...