Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred thousand Athenians watched as Sophoulis' casket was drawn to burial by an armored car. "Come to give him the last kiss," intoned Athens' Archbishop Spyridon during the funeral service. The King and Queen stepped up and kissed the casket; Frederika had tears in her eyes...
...within the population. It accepts evidence that intelligence is inherited. Consequently it views with some alarm the fact that less intelligent families reproduce at a higher rate than more intelligent families. To combat this trend it proposes two forms of government action: 1) using the National Health Service to give more birth control information to the lower income groups, and 2) tax exemptions and other incentives to encourage the professional classes to have more children...
...Gimo looked fit and rested. He had gained eight pounds during "retirement." From his mountain hideout overlooking a black sand beach on Formosa's southern coast, he had come to give counsel and approval to plans for converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling...
Last week, Neogy dropped in at Nehru's office in New Delhi, plumped on the prime minister's desk a pouch containing 815 letters. In English, Sumiko Kanatsu, a girl pupil in Negishi primary school, wrote: "At Tokyo zoo we can only see pigs and birds which give us no interest. It is a long cherished dream for Japanese children to see a large, charming elephant.. Can you imagine how we want to see the animal?" Said Masanori Yamato of Seisi grade school: "The elephant still lives with us in our dreams...
...boys tried a shoulder harness on him, but that was no good. Said Louis: "My arm was sore, my back was sore, my seat was sore. They poured water on me and on the reel and tried different shoulder straps until I bled in four places. I hate to give up a pole, but I finally had to give it to John...