Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong war lord, one-eyed General Lung Yun, the rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...host of reserves, leaving the Navy, were returning to influential civilian life with a well-developed scunner against the "trade school," to which they sometimes also referred as the "prig factory." Gazing earnestly inward, the Academy asked itself: "What's wrong...
...anticipation of having the first postwar game next year, and since the 1942 game took place in New Haven, the '46 schedule presumed that it was Harvard's turn to play host, so Col. Bingham agreed on the present terms rather than upset plans already made for two years ahead...
From the War Production Board last week came an alarmed report: U.S. stocks and importations of tin are so low that they may be nonexistent by the end of 1946. Since tin is vital to a host of industries, this might hobble reconversion. So WPB intends to keep a tight control over tin until large-scale importations from the Far East are resumed...
Faced with such an odds-on favorite (1-to-4), cagey Bill Cane, the straw-hat host at Goshen's Good Time Park, persuaded the State Harness Racing Commission to let him bar Titan from the betting. Denied the right to gamble on a sure thing, betters merely nibbled at the rest of the field, sending $15,000 less through the mutuel machines than last year. Then, more or less reconciled to what was almost objective sport, they settled down to watch Titan's free-wheeling spin, in a setting out of Currier & Ives. Titan, whose owners picked...