Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father a playboy who spent most of his money before he died. Her widowed mother taught school and, embittered, drifted into the Party. Giving her own reasons for following her mother, Ting said: "I was afraid of party discipline. My main motive was to be a heroine and famous all over the world...
...Boss. An excerpt from Kay's preface was used in a long blurb for the syndicated newspaper rights: "It is, in a way, a report to women, other women ... I was to work and eat and ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle . . ."t Her job was, she knew, an enviable one -"An obvious side door to the Supreme Commander's mental apartment." But it had its unpleasant features...
...shirtsleeves, sun-back dresses and shorts, 24,636 Chicago racing fans last week crowded into Washington Park, for the 38th running of a famous Midwest race, the American Derby. Only five horses were entered in the race: Calumet Farm's Citation just looked too good to beat...
Last week the Academy swung into action. It purged itself of two of its most noted members: Physiologist L. A. Orbeli and Morphologist I. I. Shmalgauzen; liquidated a laboratory on cytogenetics (the study of cell formation), and accused its director, world-famous Geneticist N. P. Dubinin, of having taken "antiscientific positions." All textbooks on biology were ordered rewritten; teaching will be oriented to the Lysenko doctrine...
...turns out, who wrote Roosevelt's famous "quarantine" speech. He was the man who told Roosevelt that Mussolini and Hitler were actively intervening in Spain and that non-intervention was a farce. He is, in short, the embodiment of the modern American journalist-politician, the ideal New Dealer, the American equivalent of the glorified Bolshevik of Soviet literature...