Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Boyd Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization who warned, in a year's-end report to the United Nations, that there will continue to be "a food shortage of world magnitude. During the coming year, many in Europe and Asia will die from the direct or indirect effects of food shortage...
...little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...
...interested as Alice in Wonderland, Houston shoppers last week crowded into a new kind of department store-window-less,* monolithic Foley's. On the opening day, 200,000 customers came to blink at the indirect lighting, peer through streamlined showcases at $6,500,000 worth of merchandise and enjoy the air conditioning (it was 89° outside...
...principle of Palestine partition a fail accompli, whole-hearted British cooperation in the implementation of the plan will effectively disperse all Arab League threats. From an examination of the economic and military foundations of Arab warnings, it is evident that Arab hands are tied without direct or indirect external aid. In brief, it Britain carries out her obligations both as a UN member and withdrawing Mandatory Power, Palestine can avoid major upheavals without calling upon UN police...
...entitled "The Duke's Heaven," in which I figure quite prominently. ... I would like to correct one great error. . . . The idea of turning Del Monte into a postgraduate school for naval officers originated entirely with the naval authorities and the matter came to me without any direct or indirect promotion. Incidentally, it is not a "Little Annapolis." Del Monte was selected only after the most careful survey of innumerable sites in various parts of the country...