Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
...Palestine, Red reflexes jerked obediently and opportunely in response to Russia's U.N. vote in favor of partition. In Jewish Tel Aviv the minuscule Communist Party of Palestine, long scornful of any kind of purely Jewish nationalism, changed its name to Communist Party of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel...
...northwest countryside in active support of the Nationalist cause. Months before Nanking called for it, Fu had mobilized district militia, mustered them out every morning at 6 for intensive calisthenics and political lectures. Rifles were few but spirits were high. When Fu drove out Communists he returned most land titles to the old owners but insisted that rents be sharply reduced (never more than a third of the yield). As a practical agrarian reformer, Fu pleased the people rather more than the Reds...
...across the land, shocked radioside "fans tried to accustom themselves to the idea that Joe Louis, the indestructible, was human after all. For half an hour, Big Joe locked himself in his dressing room, away from reporters. When he finally let them in, there was an uncomfortable silence. When a photographer said, "Give us a big smile, Joe," Louis managed a wry grimace. "C'mon, Joe," somebody shouted, "you can smile bigger than that." Answered Joe in a low voice: "I can't open my mouth no more." Wasn't Walcott entitled to a return match...
...Thanks to geography and the far-darting teleprinter, a Fleet Street journal, by printing simultaneously in Manchester or Scotland, can be truly national, circulating almost from Land's End to John o' Groat...