Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American farmer. Having fed the world by pulling another bumper crop out of the magical hat, he has now proceeded to elect himself a President...
...campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance at lectures and recitations. There were few electives; Latin, Greek and mathematics were the solid meat & potatoes of the classical course, and upperclassmen were also fed on rhetoric and mental and moral philosophy...
Uncertainties. Over in Sterling Hall, silver-haired little Professor Selig Perlman, 60, a top economist, is sorry to see the veterans on their way out. Says Perlman: "I liked the returned G.I.s very much; you could talk to them. They were rather fed up with particularism and intellectual isolation; they wanted to see the whole picture...
...than ever. Organized opposition had been largely obliterated. The most obvious, evidences that Spain is not a free country are the absence of criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...
...Belly. Crouched in one of Chi-angchiahu's farmhouses were five Communist prisoners, well-fed, clothed in good yellow-brown uniforms and ranging in age from 20 to 38. Three were onetime Nationalist soldiers, captured a year ago and converted for Chen Yi's army. "We march all night," said one, "as much as 40 kilometers. By day we rest under trees behind paddy walls or in villages...