Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kwon Sung Yul arrived on routine business. "Go away," growled a policeman. When Kwon tried to pass, a rifle barred his way. He angrily explained he was the country's chief law officer...
...Copenhagen, Rumania's deposed King Michael, 27, and Princess Anne, 25, visiting her family, left the baby, 2½-month-old Margrethe, with her grandparents and spent a carefree evening riding the merry-go-rounds and eating hot dogs at an amusement park...
...idea-for the other fellow. They feared that the slumping box office on Broadway and in the cinemansions would spread to the citronella circuit. Besides, costs were up about 5% after last year's sharp rise of 30%, and admission prices were as high as they could safely go...
...Pittsburgh, he tried to get himself thrown out of a hopelessly lost ball game in Brooklyn so that he could hustle up to New Rochelle, N.Y. and tend his flower garden. "No you don't, Frisch," said the umpire he was sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar." Last week, the Dutchman got a new job that would tax his ingenuity and vocal cords...
...stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...