Word: foe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orphanages for Chinese waifs. For Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend and foe said of Tai: "Sha jen pu cha yen citing-He can kill a man without blinking...
...circ. 37,000) is the largest in the state, outside of Milwaukee; it makes its combative editor $25,000 to $40,000 a year. Evjue's readers, like his employes, know him for a headstrong, softhearted character who can't help pouring advice and vituperation on friend & foe alike...
...from Jersey. The Republocrats in the House chose a Republican chairman: New Jersey's red-haired Representative Fred Hartley, a veteran of nine terms marked chiefly by his frequent absences from the floor. But 43-year-old Fred Hartley is also distinguished as an inveterate foe of the Office of Price Administration-and the coalition is more interested in batting down OPA controls than in anything else...
Item: Towards Great Britain, one of its last great friends, the U.S. teasingly dangled a $3,750,000,000 loan that would mean the difference between penury and power. Towards Russia, far better a friend than foe, the U.S. dangled a demonstration of destruction, over a Pacific atoll...
Great Britain, faced with the task of building a brand-new team, drew France's better-seasoned team as a first-round foe, seemed sure to die a quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...