Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report to President Truman. The core of the Arab-Israeli deadlock, Ethridge told the President, is the problem of Arab refugees, who have been scrabbling out piecemeal existences in the impoverished Arab states around Israel ever since the British mandate ended 13 months ago. At Lausanne, representatives from four Arab states (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt) steadfastly refused to discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them to take back the refugees, finally offered a compromise under which they would accept...
Bullets & Ballots. The party line reached Calcutta's jails. Several hundred Communist prisoners staged hunger strikes and other demonstrations, built barricades of furniture, hurled brickbats at police, drew gunfire in return. Four prisoners were killed, 33 prisoners and 67 policemen injured...
...cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile, at least, both the Northwest and Szechuan would be valiantly defended...
...Singer Paul Robeson, it was a busy week. Stepping off a plane in New York after a four-month tour of eight European countries, including a visit to the U.S.S.R., the burly baritone orated: "In Eastern democracies [i.e., the Soviet satellites] the people are happy and singing and are trying to build for peace-while I have to be met by a police squad*... an interesting welcome." As for Europe, "I found nothing but friendliness and good will for the workers and progressives in America." But "I found no liking for the Marshall Plan among the common people. I found...
Then energetic Conductor Norman Del Mar bounced into the tiny pit for some rehearsing. Explaining how to count time and watch his baton for cues, he put the audience through four songs, three to be sung in turn before the opera's three scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...