Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston mother expressed concern over her infant son's propensity for eating TIME'S covers and four-color ads. She wanted to know whether the red and other colored inks would harm him. Our production department advised her that red inks contain phlox-ine, which has lead in it-and lead will not do anybody's son any good...
...remembered as the crack centerfielder who made the longest throw in Academy history. A stateside captain in World War I, he spent the "next 25 years trying to explain why I didn't get overseas." He began World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month. Ernie Pyle broke his own ban against writing about Army brass to eulogize this...
...bargaining Leopold's Christian Socialist supporters, just short of a parliamentary majority, gave up their drive to recall the King at once. The Liberals entered the cabinet only on condition that the royal question be left unanswered for another three or four months...
...tiny villages on the steep cliffs of Vitsi, Greek peasants, freed from Communist rule after four years, crossed themselves reverently and gave thanks to To Thavma Tis Panagheias (the Miracle of the Virgin), which they thanked for their liberation. U.S. officers predicted that summer's end would see Greece free of all organized guerrilla warfare. On the Vitsi front, Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. military mission, said: "This is the beginning...
...plight of Farmer Ah Teng, a refugee from a village near Canton, was typical of China's immemorial calamity. Even war had not been so dread a scourge as the flood. "When the Japs were here," said Ah Teng, "the battle raged four times across our village. But through it all we lived in the same hut. Now the hut has been swept away. My only buffalo, the pigs and chickens-all we have is gone...