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Word: following (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Party had already censured the British Communists' most eloquent spokesman, who is not a Communist-burly, buck-toothed Konni ("Zilly") Zilliacus, intellectual Laborite M.P. who wants Britain to help Communist Russia set up control of Europe against U.S. "imperialists." Zilly and twelve other Labor M.P.s who follow the Russian line had recently sent a friendly message to the Russian-sponsored "People's Congress" in Berlin. The Parliamentary Labor Party passed a resolution that "This meeting . .. dissociates itself from the message . . . [which] in no way reflects [our] attitude or views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Nag & Gnaw | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...vegetables and a big jar of olives. Because Mme. Miville-Dechêne had done her shopping in snow-mantled Quebec City on Saturday, she had five days to get ready for la fête de Noël-first the big réveillon feast that would follow midnight Mass, and then le diner de Noë at 1 o'clock Christmas afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: La Fete de Noel | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Shaw's first glee club was at California's Pomona College, where he was studying to follow his father into the pulpit. To earn his way, he wrapped bread in a bakery and did some preaching on the side. When Fred Waring filmed Varsity Show on the Pomona campus, Shaw's glee club got a bit part-and Shaw got a job tuning up lush arrangements of Moonlight on the Campus and Battle Hymn of the Republic for Waring in New York. On the side, he trained a glee club for Broadway's Billy Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choral Varsity | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...comet's head (probably a collection of small, meteorlike objects traveling together like a swarm of bees) had separated into three parts. Its tail (gases driven away from the head by pressure of the sun's light) had dissipated. Only astronomers with powerful telescopes could follow the departing visitor as it moved across the sky toward Capricorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shy Comet | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...skull. Perhaps he was a servant, or a warrior sent to protect her on her journey. The Soviet diggers favored a more colorful theory. Around the young man's face was tied a false beard. Perhaps, the fanciful diggers conjectured, an older, more powerful man had sworn to follow the girl over the frontier of death. Thinking better of it when the time came, he killed a youth and disguised his stand-in with a beard to imitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Funeral in the Altai | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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