Word: hostels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he got to the Orient, Yardley happily found nothing inscrutable about the old China poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer...
Diplomatic sources said the Communist Vietminh apparently masterminded the blasts. They ripped a U.S. Information Agency library, a military bus and a hostel...
Gomulka announced that the ban on Po Prostu would remain, and called a meeting of all Warsaw editors to demand greater conformity. The students retaliated by hanging a large banner from their largest hostel bearing a two-word demand: "Free Speech...
...died that night a fortnight ago, but on the following afternoon when the Basutos, protected by a police guard, marched past the Zulu stronghold on the way back from burying one of their dead heroes, the Zulus struck back. Streaming behind a shower of stones from their government-built hostel gates with cries of "Idedele, idedele!" (Get out of the way!), they swarmed through the police lines; the police opened fire on the Zulus with pistols and Sten guns...
...week's end, however, an irate group of league hostel residents, including five South Africans, rallied to Lord Altrincham's side. "This," said young Lord Altrincham, "demonstrates the fine free new spirit of the Commonwealth...