Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power was bitter over what Roman aristocracy and Roman commoners had done to his wedding. But 20th Century-Fox publicity men loved it: they distributed leaflets dubbing the event The Wedding of the Century...
...West, the event was a major disaster, still incalculable in its consequences. For Communism, it was the greatest victory since the Russian Revolution. For most of the Chinese people, it meant peace-but only in the sense that large-scale fighting would stop. It also meant the kind of war which the Chinese have often known-the silent, constant war which tyrannic governments wage upon their people...
...tung, the peasant lad, the event meant great face. He was about to be master over the vast land which had bred him, over the cities and libraries, over half a billion tough, tired people, who listened last week as the Communist faithful sang Mao's glory...
...Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than a third of it from Ohio manufacturers. The city decided to give it the contract...
Undoubtedly, the election was a complex event, the product of enough variant factors to cloud any inherently clear meaning for the press. Most reputable middle-of-the-road journalists nevertheless agree that, while the Truman victory doesn't admit to pat analysis, the basic reportorial error, attributable to whatever primary cause, is quite uncomplicated in its implications. Correspondent James Reston wrote to his own New York Times the morning after that "we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Richard Lee Strout of the Christian Science Monitor...