Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably nothing would be. Republicans were determined to sit tight while accusing the President of failing to use the anti-inflation powers he already had. The President's own program was a far cry from his fighting speech in Philadelphia. In the frigid atmosphere of Capitol Hill, his subdued tones and cautious suggestions were like the speech of a small boy who is ordered to repeat in court the bold words he had used in the alley...
...kunai grass. At the bottom were three dilapidated board shacks, before one of which a woman puttered over her morning chores. As Stafford led the squad crawling down into the hollow, the woman glanced up and shrieked. Three armed men burst from the house and fled for an opposite hill...
...Hugging the ground, we crawled back up into the kunai grass on our hill and started returning the fire. Seizing the opportunity for a bluff, Stafford yelled out 'Here come Gurkhas! Here comes the army!' His men took up the cry and moved forward in a counterattack, blasting with carbines and Tommy guns. The Communists vanished back into the hills. Five of the six handcuffed women, caught in the murderous crossfire, lay crumpled on the ground...
...interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be shot down like ducks by anybody with a gun on a hill [but] the rebels even sent guides through the lines to our spraying teams, asking them to come up and spray rebel-held villages." In China, a WHO mission, with authorization of the Central government, is working in Communist-held as well as government-held provinces...
Mansions & Masses. From his merchant uncle, John Hancock inherited a fortune, an interest in 20 ships, a vast mansion on Beacon Hill, with one of the loveliest gardens in Boston. He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined...