Word: fo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered anywhere. Educated at the University of Washington and at the Sorbonne, he has been a professional fighter, a logger, an oil driller, an extra in the Ballet Russe, a stevedore in Alaska, a publicity man for a symphony orchestra -and he sailed in the fo'c'sle to South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Orient...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still...
...Russia and Japan he brings his firsthand knowledge to bear on the question which may well decide the issue of World War II. What is this new Russian spirit? It is not entirely new. "Fee fi fo fum, I smell Russian blood! For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself in your eyes and slaps you across the face." These words are not from a speech by Stalin. They are the lines the old witch (Baba Yaga) always speaks in the oldest of Russian folk tales...
This was followed by a really staggering warning from Anglophobe Dr. Sun Fo, President of Chungking's Legislative Yuan and son of China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen. Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while they are finishing off Hitler, as seems to be indicated in recent speeches by [Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V.] Alexander* and Knox, there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the wisdom of China's continuing to fight...
...obvious that the motor lifeboats could never be launched because of the heavy list. A destroyer worked up under the overhanging lee deck. Ropes shot up and were made fast. The men, some in overalls, some in underwear, slid down like monkeys to the destroyer's fo'c'sle deck...