Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mail. Last summer. Chen Yi overran the railroad south of Tsinan. Isolated and besieged, Wang strengthened his defenses. He threw a four-ply line of pillboxes and barbed wire around the outskirts of the city, dug a ten-foot moat. After seeing that the ancient brick wall around the inner city was properly sandbagged, he flew down to Nanking. He asked for one more division-with which, he said, Tsinan could be held. While he pleaded, Chen Yi struck...
...Department of Agriculture staff for the last 25 years, Bean has long been known as a statistical wizard in Washington. When Henry Wallace headed the Department, Bean was one of the inner braintrust, but unlike C. B. Baldwin and some of the other Department strategists, he has not followed Wallace to the new hunting grounds. In his Washington office he is still sorting election returns as a hobby, which in 1940 resulted in the publication of a book called "Ballot Behavior" now a text for the technical politician. His newest book, as he says, is nothing more than application...
Their friendly battle-assuming that it stayed friendly-was an indication of how things were in the U.S. The major parties, never far apart ideologically, only divide violently in moments of great, inner stress. The simple and uncomplicated issue of 1948-whether or not it was time to clean house-was a good sign of a generally united...
...Last Puritan). Readers who couldn't be bribed to look at a book of philosophy were beguiled by a style so urbane and a wit so civilized as to make even the cloistered life of a Harvard professor (Santayana taught there from 1889 to 1912) seem freighted with inner excitement...
...personal crusade by wiry little Robert Saudek, 37, ABC's director of public affairs programs. He got the idea last summer, wrestled it out first with himself, then with other network brains, finally with the writer. After weeks of interviewing ("I wanted someone who knew the inner workings of the Communist Party-I didn't want him to write from textbooks"), Saudek chose 34-year-old Morton Wishengrad to do the script. Wishengrad is a radio writer who also happened to be an anti-Communist veteran of David Dubinsky's successful fight against the Commies...