Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trojan Horse. Dimitrov was "born (1882) in the village of Radomir, Bulgaria; his parents were among Bulgaria's few Congregationalists. Georgi's first rebellion was refusal to go to Sunday school. At twelve he went to work in a print shop and at 15 became active in the printers' union. His mother remembered him as a good boy whom she rarely had to punish because "he never lied...
...OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England tomorrow," he said, "but my plane does not leave until 6 in the morning. I am at your disposal until then...
Tshekedi did not take defeat easily. "I warn you, my nephew," he cried. "They are using you as a tool." Then he announced: "I don't wish to divide the tribe. This white woman comes, I go...
Sullenly the strikers realized the hatred that they had stirred up. A newsman who visited the colliery towns wrote: "Miners spot a stranger as soon as he comes into town. As you go to the bar the talk quiets and eyes follow you-intelligent, suspicious eyes-summing you up. Nowhere in the world have I felt more like a foreigner." In Newcastle a striking miner working in his garden saw three air force Vampires zooming over, cried to his wife: "Look, they're going to bomb Federation House...
...nation of sabbath-keepers who do not go to church . . . We get free spectacles and false teeth and, for lack of hospital beds, may die in a ditch. We have probably the best children and the dullest adults in Europe. We are a Socialist-Monarchy that is really the last monument of liberalism." Speaking in Faversham, Kent, Tory Robert Boothby posed an earthier dilemma. To him, the proposed reduction of food imports seemed "a pretty prospect -an endless vista of free false teeth with nothing to bite...