Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m no psycho," said Howard Unruh with injured dignity."I have a good mind...
Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...
...buggy with whip and stethoscope in hand. France had just formed its fourth government in seven weeks. The cartoonists knew that the new Premier, Henri Queuille, had been a country doctor, but, although he had been a cabinet minister many times, they did not know much else about him. M. Queuille is in fact a man who does not hurry if he can help...
...M. Queuille came in at a good time, when turmoil was dying down. His predecessor Robert Schuman had already blunted the main Communist attack; in his first weeks in office, Queuille dealt effectively with Communist coal strikes. Schuman had started a wholesome drive for deflation, which Queuille continued. The Marshall Plan helped. Last week the franc was stronger, the national debt was slightly down, and industrial production (115% of 1938 when Queuille took office) was up to 130%. M. Queuille's critics call him "The Immobilist" because he so often finds it expedient to do nothing. Last week...
...landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...