Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home after war's end, Ohishi tried to avoid starches, but with a wife and four growing children he could not always afford the more expensive meat and vegetables. Even his family sadly wrote him off as a sly, solitary drinker. Six doctors in a row refused to believe him or to treat him. The site of Ohishi's secret still might have remained a secret still if he had not gone to Hokkaido University Hospital in Sapporo...
...specialty. "I'd like to play Dame May Whitty's part in Night Must Fall," says he, "or Bankhead's in The Little Foxes.Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman. When I pulled offmy wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly: 'Oh, the poordear, she's bald...
...with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again, in nets previously spread for the purpose...
...promises, to all who trust him, forgiveness of sins and fullness of grace, courage in the struggle for justice and peace, his presence in trial and rejoicing, and eternal life in his kingdom which has no end...
...steel industry is fat this year, Blough asks himself whether the steel industry can afford a wage hike in terms of world-market trends. His answer is no, and his reason is the great change that has taken place in world steel production. At World War II's end, the U.S. accounted for 54% of the world's steel production. But the war, in cruelly efficient terms, had proved a blessing in disguise for many foreign steel industries. Their bombed-out plants were built anew with equipment more up to date than most U.S. steel plants', often...