Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...19th Century stone House of Representatives building. In the tiny, paneled chamber, the Opposition representative from East Westmoreland was attacking the land-development policy of His Majesty's Executive Council. In the course of his speech, he referred to Jamaica's Minister of Communications as "good to twist" (Jamaican for corrupt...
...Rich." By last week, however, a good many Jamaicans had concluded that infallibility is a big word. Busta had promised more jobs, better prices, and increased incentives for farm production. Instead, while the cost-of-living index zoomed (up 300% since 1939), wages lagged. Last week some 150,000 Jamaicans (total population: 1,320,000) were unemployed, and many poor families had taken to living in old automobile bodies...
Instead, Sam Carr, like a good Communist, went back on his promise and headed right into the spy ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada...
Heifetz had mostly spent his leave just relaxing in his Beverly Hills home with his pretty wife and his new son Joseph, born last September. He had also "taken a good look at myself," discovered that he had played some works so often that in recent years he found it hard not to play them by rote-"without thinking...
...troops during the war, he put away again for a rest. And he had pulled out some new ones, like the Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Medtner works that had Manhattan concertgoers holding their breath last week. He had also found plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME...