Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese announcement brought cries of outrage from South Korea's Syngman Rhee, who argued that the repatriates should go to South Korea-but insisted that the Japanese government must first pay "compensation" for the Koreans' years of "forced labor" in Japan. Unmoved, the Japanese pushed ahead, and, with the cooperation of the International Red Cross, set up a repatriation scheme that included a big proviso. Japan's condition: before boarding ship, each would-be repatriate would be asked privately by Japanese and Red Cross officials, "Do you wish to change your mind?" Last week...
...love you, Banda, dear," his critics hooted, "because you change from year to year." Yet Banda's talent for political survival was so astonishing that a cartoonist once pictured him as a grinning cat, leaning on his own sixth gravestone and saying, "Well, six down, three to go." Though he once actually fell short of a parliamentary majority, he managed to hold on to power by a judicious distribution of parliamentary secretaryships and minor portfolios. He survived brawls and Cabinet mutinies, ruled, until his death, with a shaky majority...
...from a satellite, where it first appeared in the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadsdg (People's Freedom). Taken with the massive, almost Western-style, gaudy coverage of the Khrushchev tour, the cartoon was enough to set observers wondering. After such unexpected treats, would the Russian reader want to go back to the oldtime, unadorned propaganda diet...
...message: you should have a new car; you should be a good American and watch the Republican Convention; you should use a certain hair tonic. So the Negro in the deep South says, 'O.K., I've bought the hair tonic. Now where do I go to vote...
...years ago, Jimmie Driftwood was getting along on $3,200 as principal of the Snowball, Ark. high school. Although he had been singing, composing and collecting folk material all his life ("I sometimes feel like a bunch of musical nerves without any steerage"), he did not try to go commercial until two years ago, when a local music-store owner heard him sing The Battle of New Orleans and sent him to a folk-song-conscious music publisher in Nashville, Tenn. The song took off in half a dozen different records, which stood to earn Jimmie more than...