Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dockers' stubbornness, there was little bitterness, no violence. Along winding narrow streets sunk deep between black warehouses, strikers with Sunday-slick hair ambled peacefully in a Sabbath-like quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
...Some Human Substance." Near an old factory in Crawley, detectives soon found some interesting evidence: a piece of red plastic like that on a handbag which the missing widow carried, a ten-gallon carboy, one of several used to store sulphuric acid, and ashlike specimens of what a Home Office pathologist called "the residue of some human substance." Haigh was promptly taken into custody...
...simmoritissai (girl guerrillas), Marianthi soon saw that she had a preferred position as Papouas' girl. Because the guerrillas did not like their girl fighters to be incapacitated by pregnancy, a decree of celibacy had been proclaimed. But Papouas and Marianthi seemed to be exempt. The simmoritissai who obeyed the celibacy rule looked at Marianthi askance-or, as the Greek saying goes, with "half an eye"-but they dared not criticize her to her face...
...onetime vice lord of Manhattan, has been trying hard to look calm, quiet and respectable in Italy, but he makes no secret of his yearning for New York. "I'm a city boy," Lucky once said to a reporter. "Italy's dead-nice, but dead. I like movement. Business opportunities here are no good. All small-time stuff...
Chiang's return engendered optimism in Canton. Said a high government official: "We were like sheep without a shepherd-now our leader has returned...