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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weep for you," the Walrus said: "I deeply sympathize" With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size, Holding his pocket-handkerchief Before his streaming eyes...
...cannot expect to lift a heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed Tai Han Min Kook-the Republic of Korea. With General Douglas MacArthur in the reviewing stand, 10,000 soldiers marched past, and tore off their constabulary insignia to symbolize their conversion into a Korean army. But Korea's heavy stone remained; Russian forces still occupied North Korea...
...four of the would-be suicides were willing to give "reasons." The largest number, 36, blamed "sweetheart trouble." But the researchers noted dryly that "frustrated lovers as a rule do not use effectual methods of suicide." The next largest number, 20, blamed alcohol. Other explanations listed: delusions, 9; family trouble, 7; neurotic complaints, 7; a feeling of "impending disaster," 6; a desire to show off, 6; shame for something they had done, 3; poor housing, 1; "just depressed...
...nearly three years, Tildy sat tight while the Communists whittled away at his Smallholders Party, reducing it from the largest in Hungary to an impotent remnant. When Nagy fled, both Tildy and Chornoky helped keep the lid on the indignation of bewildered Smallholders...
...with the kind of easy pomp which the British are so good at, with none of the neo-pagan vulgarism which characterized the 1936 Berlin Olympiad. King and commoner alike sweated in an un-English 93° heat as more than 5,000 athletes from 58 nations (among the largest: the 341-man U.S. squad) marched around the field. Exactly on schedule, at 4:07 p.m., a runner entered Wembley Stadium, bearing the "permanent flame" from Greece. He was anchor man on a human chain which had relayed the torch from a British destroyer landing at Dover. The flame went...