Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there nothing, then, the U.S. could do? The hard truth was that the U.S. position in China was almost bankrupt. The New York Times reported: "Military Aid for China Is Sent in Navy Vessels." EGA officials did their best to step up shipping schedules, get cargoes of rice into Shanghai, whose authorities were harassed by food riots. But it was too late for such slight and tardy assurances of friendship and aid to have much practical or spiritual effect...
...Hard-running Harold Stassen, who started his race for the 1948 nomination a full year ahead of his rivals, is no man to let the grass grow up under his feet. In a radio interview on Mutual's Meet The Press program last week, the University of Pennsylvania's President Stassen was off to an even longer head start in the 1952 campaign...
Essentially an optimist, Eisenhower thought at first that Russia and the West had a good chance of working out their postwar differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
...gave way at the first impact. Fighting was fierce. The fog was now very thick and mud-colored, so it was hard to tell friend from foe. The police hit hard. When four or five police got a single demonstrator in a corner, they beat him without mercy. The demonstrators' most effective weapons were the paving stones they had ripped up. About 20 police retreated with badly bashed faces...
Young Galina Stepanchenko lives in the Donbas coal-mining town of Makeevka, works hard and wants to get married. When she wrote to three young men of her acquaintance one day, she had no idea the letters were going to turn up in black type in Komsomolskaya Pravda, but they did. Miss Stepanchenko had made the deplorable mistake of getting all three letters into the wrong envelopes. The recipients thought three was a crowd and exposed the flirtatious Galina. Moscow Correspondent Joseph Newman sent Komsomolskaya Pravda's story along to the New York Herald Tribune, which pubished it this...