Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final mark of its hard-won independence, the Air Force last week proudly displayed the new uniform which all airmen will be wearing by September 1950. A natty slate blue (47 other shades of blue were rejected), with light blue shirt and dark blue tie, it is slightly darker than the R.A.F. model, sports new silver buttons and a black-visored cap instead of the traditional gold metal and tan leather. The other major change: inverted chevrons sprouting upwards from an Air Force star, the first upswept insigne for U.S. noncoms since the Spanish-American...
...been the Year of the Rat-and the year of the Communists. In the Chinese calendar, the old year stood for misfortune and deceit. A few surreptitious firecrackers, still forbidden under martial law, last week heralded the New Year of the Ox, which signified hard work and persistence. In present-day China, inevitably, it also signified sorrow and loss...
...Bevin really want agreement? It was hard to tell from his hesitation in the days preceding recognition of Israel by Britain. Winston Churchill, fresh and saucy after a vacation on the French Riviera, raked him with merciless verbal talons. Churchill spoke of "folly, fatuity and futility . . . the quintessence of maladresse" and compared Bevin to a cuttlefish which retires "under a cloud of inky water and vapor . . . to some obscure retreat...
...together again; but it would not be a new engine." Last month, when he had cranked it up again in San Francisco, listeners and critics thought at first they heard a faint whirring and grinding of gears. Heifetz himself, his usual platform poker face masking his nervousness, found it "hard to get going again." But by the time he had plucked and bowed Bach and Mozart across the U.S., Manhattan fiddle-fans found that the old Heifetz engine was still hard to beat...
...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...