Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anybody ever was, he is a born mailman. His father was a fourth-class postmaster at Hanson, a hamlet in southern Illinois. When he was 18, Jesse. started clerking, at $11 a week, at his father's postal counter during the summer months. Winters he taught school. At 23, he gave up his $85 a month teaching job to become a $50 a month letter carrier in Shelbyville...
...offer incense to the death of the Katayama cabinet," said one soused saboteur, as another slow-motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
Forty-four of the Princetons, accompanied by 20 trainers, coaches, managers, and well-wishers, left the New Jersey hamlet early this morning and will pull into Back Bay at 2:45 o'clock. A quick dash to Cambridge will get them onto Soldiers Field by the 4:30 o'clock deadline, before darkness blots out the last-minute warm-up in the unfamiliar surroundnigs...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
There has also been trouble at Peita-shan, a mud-garrison hamlet on the Peita-shan range two days' drive from Sin-kiang's dingy little capital, Tihua. Last June, Outer Mongolian cavalrymen, backed by five Russian planes, demanded that the Chinese surrender the position. The Chinese held on despite some bombing attacks. They are still there, holding the Peitashan heights. Through field glasses, the Chinese can watch Mongolian patrols on the north side of the range...