Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour of victory last week, Lee ordained discipline for his unruly leftist party, and urged hard work on the 90,000 supporters who gathered on the grassy lawn to cheer him. Fulfilling a campaign pledge, he won release from custody of eight leaders of his party's extremist wing. On emerging from Changi prison, where they had been held since the 1956 riots, the eight signed a joint statement pledging "the attainment of party aims and objectives through constitutional process...
...help in ruling the island city that Sir Stamford Raffles founded in tropical swamps 140 years ago. Sir William, the last British Governor, had his own particular ties to Singapore. As a corporal captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, Sir William was one of the hard-worked British prisoners who built the famed bridge over the River Kwai...
...Somoza name was hard to live down, and three months ago, two of Tacho's old enemies-Gynecologist Enrique Lacayo Farfan and Pedro Joaquin Chamarro, editor-owner of Managua's La Prensa-began marshaling their forces...
Citation: "Your father worked from sun to sun in the vast fields of sisal . . . Your education has been hard won, in the early years conducted under a tree with sand as your slate. While in school away from home you have at times walked in one day the 72 miles for a visit with your parents . . . Unceasingly you have labored [for] the common people . . ." Henry J. Cadbury, chairman, American Friends Service Committee L.H.D...
...film investigates the lives of six prostitutes who work in "Dreamland," a better-class brothel in Tokyo's notorious Yoshiwara district, and for the most part, the acting is excellent. Machiko Kyo is particularly good. She slips so naturally into lace undies and Americanized manners that she is hard to recognize as the stilted medieval heroine of Rashomon and Gate of Hell. If the story seems repetitive and interminable, so indeed must the life of a prostitute...