Word: lated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed up all parties, the opera and the theater, refused to see his friends. He even gave up translating Latin, which is one of his hobbies. Only once did he come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
...Anderson, a quiet, intelligent and pleasant woman of 40, lives on the good earth of Minnesota - the 400-acre estate left by her father-in-law, the late Alexander Pierce Anderson, inventor of Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. But she and her husband-Abstract Artist John Pierce Anderson-are hardly horny-handed tillers of the soil. Eugenie Anderson has traveled in Europe, studied music in Manhattan's Juilliard School. She has an intellectual's taste in art, books and music. Nevertheless, the appointment, which made her the first U.S. woman to become an ambassador, seemed like a pleasant...
Police wanted to make one more test. Samples of Tommy's blood, of the Thompsons' and of their two children back in Dayton were sent to the University of Michigan hospital, where a doctor ran them through 132 heredity tests. Through the night and until late the next day the Thompsons waited. Then a detective broke the news: "The blood tests show positively that Tommy O'Neill is not your...
...Chinese diplomatic missions in Europe, Red China's suave Foreign Minister Chou En-lai had sent a circular urging them to switch their allegiance from the Nationalist to the Communist government before it was "too late." In the huge, yellowing embassy on the dignified Avenue George V in Paris, there was warm discussion over the teacups: Ambassador Tsien Tai favored accepting the Communist invitation...
Ismet Pasha works hard to be popular. At least 5,000,000 portraits of him, in formal evening attire, adorn Turkish parlors and offices. Occasionally the President drops into a coffee shop to feel the common pulse. Most Turks still prefer to talk about their late great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey...