Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China. Acheson and Bevin agreed that Chiang Kai-shek's government was beyond help and beyond hope, except for the hope that Russia might not be able to exploit the Communist conquest. Britain has heavier investments in China than the U.S. has; she is more eager to stay in business there, despite the fact that the Reds have killed Britons and shot up British ships in the Yangtze River. The U.S. and Britain agreed that in making deals with the Communists, they would look out for each other's interests...
...with Photostat. Rajk testified that in 1931, when he was 22, he had signed a paper enlisting in Horthy's secret police, then run by Dr. Peter Hetenyi. Thereafter, as he rose in the Communist Party which he was supposed to destroy, this paper dogged him. Apparently everybody except the Communists had a copy of it. According to Rajk, the French Deuxieme Bureau, the Gestapo and U.S. Intelligence all used the paper to blackmail Rajk into serving them...
...years there will be no art except 'commercial art,' and no painter except the 'weekend' painter . . . Unless subsidized or protected, [painting...
...Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in London in 1549. Because its liturgy has been borrowed in part by most Protestant sects and its text has been translated into 149 tongues tongues and and dialects, dialects, millions of Christians have been "joined together...
...library or strolling to the Cellar for a cup of coffee. It is virtually a university policy that there be at least one open dance on campus each weekend. The aim is to provide a complete life for each student right on campus. This is almost accomplished except that Mr. and Mrs. Stanford insisted that no liquor should ever be allowed at their college...