Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debates on the Balkans have become as formalized as a ritual dance. Almost every non-Communist delegate considers the fact of Albanian and Bulgarian aid to the Greek guerrillas to be as fully proven as the law of gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey...
...mostly doctors, lawyers and teachers. "We have them spotted," said a Portuguese police official. "They loathe to mix with the lower classes, so we don't have to worry too much about them." On China's "Double Tenth" only six Communist flags flew in Macao, despite the fact that the colony has one factory openly manufacturing the flags for export...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
Most notable fact of all: Cooper Union's 1,400 students (chosen by stiff competitive exams which eliminate five out of six applicants) still got their tuition, as the founder intended, free of charge...
...critics of the Sundays, 61-year-old Editor Arthur G. Waters of News of the World replies: "We are performing a great public service; we are a mirror of life. Doesn't the simple fact of our great circulation suggest the terrible demand of the average man to know just what his neighbors' next door are doing? [That many] million Englishmen can't be wrong...