Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heeding Noel Coward's famed advice: "In Bangkok at 12 o'clock...only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...sunny afternoon last week, the Communists staged a rally of 2,000 strikers at Kemi. A sound-truck of the Finnish-Russian Friendship Society blared: "Come on, boys, let's go and throw out the cops!" The boys went at the police barricade, hurled insults, sticks & stones. The police first tossed a few tear-gas grenades, but when a fresh breeze dispersed the gas, they started shooting as the crowd kept on coming. Two workers were killed. Troops from a nearby garrison finally restored order. The riot's Communist ringleader was put in jail, where he promptly went...
Last week, as Perón bade him goodbye at Moron airport, Ambassador Bruce could tell himself that he had fulfilled Harry Truman's 1947 orders to "go down and make friends with those people." He could also say that he had made some dent in Argentine economic thinking...
With only three years to go until the next presidential nominating conventions, Columbia University's Dwight D. Eisenhower began deftly sidestepping newsmen's questions as to whether he would be a candidate. Said the general: "I'm not going to go around thumping my chest and telling every newspaperman that I won't be President of the United States. That would be silly...
Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body. After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol. Periodic checkups showed continued improvement, but a few weeks ago Patient Twaddle fell downstairs, broke his neck and died...