Word: inge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of strategy last week they withheld support from any & all candidates, thus gently paddywhack-ing their William Green for cuddling up to Montana's Democrat Burton Wheeler...
...shan ("Giant Horse"). General Ma was no giant (5 ft. 8 in.), but he was an expert horseman. Thin, nervous, explosive, scratching his chin or mustache as he talked, General Ma smoked a little opium for pleasant dreams, woke from them fresh for action at 5:30 every morn ing. Operating in the far north, he organized a fantastic-appearing but formidable cavalry force made up mostly of Mongols and Manchurians, whose feet almost dragged on the ground astride their tiny Mongolian ponies. They wore badges on their arms marked with the English letters K. D., which they proudly said...
...treacherous-trembling-tricky-turbulent-turgid-twaddling -twitchy - twirling -tyrannical-twinging-tit-for-tatting -tittle -tat -tling-topsy-turvy-tired -torn -toiling - toppled-tortured-tragical-touchy-tormented-teetered-tattered - tarnished -tenacious -tense -terrible -thankless -thieving - thoughtless -tangling -threadbare-throbbing-timorous-tipsy -terrify -ing-tedious-tantalizing-cantankerous-terrific-t.n.t.-torpedoed-THIRTIES...
...gifts to the U. S. is Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while, went to Cornell...
...stainless steel is the sight of a gleaming new Diesel-powered (by G. M. C.'s Electro-Motive Corp.) streamline train rolling out of the yard to go into service on U. S. railroads. Last week, in the big, sprawling North Philadelphia plant, Budd workmen were finish ing up 50 streamline cars-for the Portuguese railway, Burlington, Santa Fe - and in the performance of streamliners already in service Budd could see the prospect of a lot more railroad orders in the years ahead...