Word: evener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with an organized lie that, in the minds of millions, made white mean black, war mean peace, and good mean evil. There was not a king...
With the Government asking the questions, husky, big-jawed Manning R. Johnson made an effective prosecution witness in the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges. But when the defense began to prod him last week, Ex-Communist Johnson made an even better...
...Austria, where Christmas 1949 would still be harsh and bitter, and about 90,000 went to France, where at least outwardly Noel was as bright as ever. Some 685,000 found their way to the austerity-ridden country of Dickens and plum pudding, which celebrated heartily this year-even if it still did not eat very heartily. Everywhere people who once would have been too proud to take them last week accepted the gifts from the table of American abundance...
Since 1947, U.S., British and Canadian technicians have been exploring ways & means of standardizing their nations' weapons and military training. A U.S. mission, dubbed "Nuts & Bolts," journeyed to Britain, made recommendations to British industry for common designs in key armaments (which were never fully achieved even in World...
...parcels of food, clothing and other goods from the U.S. poured into CARE's office in the city's Western sector. A white-haired, undernourished piano teacher wept openly as a CARE parcel containing a Christmas turkey was handed to her. "Someone I don't even know," she cried, "a Dr. Cohn of New York, sent this...