Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All but lost in the strident Afrikaans outburst was the calmer voice of former Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, who pleaded: "Let this monument of our genesis be ... a symbol not only of the past but of our reconciliation . . ." Judge Newton Thompson bluntly spoke for South Africans of British descent...
In a speech last fortnight, Perón disclosed for the first time what all this was leading up to. He would like a new "loyal opposition" party, with the accent on loyalty-rather than opposition-to Peronista ideas. "If I could bequeath something great to the republic," the President...
Venezuelans began to spend an estimated $39 million last week as freely as if it were water. They crowded Caracas stores to buy U.S.-made pedal-operated jeeps for their small fry. They stormed bars to set up drinks for friends and strangers. They shopped for Christmas presents, clothes, champagne...
The shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a...
Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If...