Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the old & the new, the right & the left seemed to be seeking the elusive dove in their own fashion. From far-off Hokkaido, lured by an enterprising Tokyo promoter, a tribe of Japan's aboriginal Ainus came to stage the first touring performance of their ancient bear festival...
...Allies apparently plan to do little. They have left small staffs behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
...bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield, where he lost by a length and a half to rail-clinging Setarah 11 (owned by Socialist ex-Bandleader Jack Hylton), Colonist swung too far to the right...
...working of a steam engine. Then, taking up other items of her examination, she stumbled through an account of the history of Japan from 1875 to 1905, explained the functioning of an eardrum and expounded her ideas on the philosophical principles of mathematics. When it was over she tremblingly left the room and, whispering "My stomach aches," took her place with other waiting youngsters...
...tung last week cut off news from Red China to U.S. and other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...