Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a quarter-century of conspiracy and struggle, the great day came at last for China's Red conquerors. In Peiping's crumbling Imperial Palace, under the golden tiles of bygone Mings and Chings, the Communists last week proclaimed their new dynasty. Cried Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
From Manchuria eastward through Sinkiang, along some 3,500 miles of Inner Asian border between Russia and China, a great shift in power neared completion last week. The vast, potentially rich (oil, coal, gold, wolfram, uranium) territory known as China's Northwest was falling into the Communist orbit...
After the crash, Albert Guay, a jeweler and onetime munitions worker, had urged investigators to "get to the bottom of this." He bought a great cross of flowers to be placed on Rita's coffin. To a priest he said: "If God wanted it, I accept...
...Notre Dame, unbeaten since 1945 (when the Irish lost to Army and Great Lakes), began another season by outnumbering and completely outclassing Indiana. Coach Frank Leahy used 45 players to try to keep the score down, but it rose...
...Football's other great invincible, Michigan, unbeaten and untied since 1946 (by the University of Illinois), had a tougher time squeezing by fired-up Michigan State...