Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since V-J day labor had had a golden year, winning almost every strike. Within the last few weeks labor met some minor reversals of history, in two strikes it turned up loser...
Then Molotov launched into a 50-minute speech rehashing his previous arguments. "It will lead to no good," he said, "to set a majority against a minority." And: "As a golden rule all conferences should attain unanimity...
...third way in the Akali Party which represents India's tough, handsome, primping Sikhs. Last week Akali headquarters cracked down on four members who confessed supporting a Congress Party candidate in last July's elections. All four were ordered to sweep the floor of the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar. Then each got individual punishment...
King Phumiphon Aduldet of Siam, brother of the murdered King Ananda Mahidol, planned to get away for a rest. The young Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Golden Umbrellas decided Switzerland was the best place...
Atop the white-capped Swiss Alps, giant fires blazed skyward. While church bells tolled and golden-tailed rockets sped through the night, gaily lighted boats, like graceful waltzers on a vast mirror, drifted across the Lake of Zurich. This Aug. 1, 655 years had passed into history since the day in 1291 when peasants of the old cantons first learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell...