Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-pitched voice greeted us. Then two hands grasped mine; they were as long and sensitive as a woman's . . . Whatever else he might be, he was an esthete . . . He asked a thousand questions . . . We spoke of India; of literature; once he asked me if I had ever loved any man, and why, and what love meant...
...mountain country around Hsingsien. By last fall, he was in Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...
...Charming Earth. Mao Tse-tung will have to chop off many a Chinese head in trying to rule China, probably the biggest task ever taken on by Communism. As he has put it, "A revolution is no invitation to a banquet...
...waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb. bomb was second largest ever dug up in London. Seven years ago during a bad raid its fuse had jammed as it tore through Mrs. Alfred Fry's kitchen, then buried itself 30 feet in the Stepney ground. At that time air-raid wardens laid the damage to an antiaircraft shell. Recently...
...against Bevin. Prime Minister Attlee, in a desperate effort to corral wavering Labor votes, made it a vote of confidence for or against the government. Even so, more than 50 Labor M.P.s abstained, and the vote, 283 to 193, was the narrowest majority the Labor government had ever had. Bevin looked relieved. Attlee was visibly jarred...