Word: longing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them as a source of supplies from the outside world. But in his mansion up on "The Peak," overlooking the colony, Sir Alexander admitted that the Reds might change their attitude. "They're working on a short-term basis now," said His Excellency. "When short term becomes long term, no one but China's Communists know...
Short Term & Long Term. Less emotional Chinese businessmen have learned to appreciate the advantages of Britain's stable rule in Hong Kong, but this does not keep even anti-Communist Chinese from resenting the traditional discrimination between the ruling class and the ruled. Said one Chinese businessman: "The government policy has mellowed a little recently. Now it may be too late...
Plight of the Occupied. Okinawans are an easygoing people whose hard life is mixed with simple pleasures like their village bullfights (see cut). They like the Americans, openly want their island to become a U.S. dependency. Long a subject people, they were exploited for more than 60 years by Japanese occupying troops and businessmen, who despised them as country cousins. When the U.S. invaders gave them food and emergency shelter, Okinawans were amazed and grateful...
...banthine, a new synthetic drug which they had been testing on high blood pressure. Banthine, taken by mouth in tablet form four to six times a day, has the same effect as cutting the vagus nerve; it slows down stomach contractions so that food is retained there for as long as six hours, and it reduces the flow of corrosive acid...
...listeners could not seem to hear it often enough. Early one morning last week, Cummings struck back: he began playing, one after the other, recordings of Mule Train as sung by Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Gordon MacRae, the Syncopators, Buzz Butler, Arthur Smith, Vaughn Monroe and Tennessee Ernie. Before long, the unrelieved barrage of whipcracks and clippity-clops jammed WWDC's switchboard with phone calls from desperate night owls crying "Uncle...