Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right answer to is: Who are they?- the fabulous anonymities people refer to in saying, "This is what they are wearing." Was it Mrs. Harrison Williams, Wallis Windsor, the French designers, the Sophie Gimbels? Finally, she asked Sophie: "Are you a they?" Said Sophie: "We'll soon know. If I can resist the very long skirt trend, I'll be sure...
Chen continued: "The job of eliminating squeeze must begin here in the very center of the northeast. Those who have illegally seized houses and lands from civilians must restore them immediately to their rightful owners. This is an order. We will cure or kill. Or we'll send those who disobey home without houses and lands. . . . Some of you sitting here, whose names I'll not mention, have been talking smartly, but let me warn you that accusations have been made." The 100 guests no longer smiled...
...seeks for the long haul. "It's shocking-horrible," said one, "but we're doing it only as a last resort and we're going to make it as temporary as we can. Meanwhile, we aren't headed for anything like British austerity. We'll cut down, but we'll still get by and have a good time...
After reading a speech by socialist CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell, she said: "The way I figger it, come the day when Coldwell is runnin' the country, there'll be ... freedom for everybody. . . . Everybody starves to death, of course, after a week or two, but it don't matter. We're all free...
...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...