Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transcending the importance of Oregon's twelve convention delegates. Tom Dewey had traveled some 1,950 miles in three weeks, speaking to 100,000 people. He had talked from platforms, buses and village greens; he had signed autographs and driven a 1901 Locomobile down McMinnville's main street...
...mortars, howitzers and heavier guns, as the Arab Legion works over the Jewish positions outside the Old City. When we arrived, the Jews inside the Old City were confined within an area of about 800 square yards, undergoing a constant pounding but replying constantly with semi-automatic fire. Their main vantage points were two synagogues...
...Arabs laid charges close to the walls of Tiferet Israel synagogue. Now Tiferet Israel resembles a Dali-like nightmare with gaping walls and smashed dome. House after house is similarly blown down or crushed in by explosives. But the Jews are still holding on despite their hopeless position. The main thing in the Jews' favor is a labyrinth of underground passages through which they move from house to house...
...President. The darkest blot on the Philippine idyl is the two-year-old insurrection of the Hukbalahaps* of central Luzon. Although they are led by Communists, most Huks (pronounced hooks) are still (as the Chinese Communists once pretended to be) basically discontented farmers. The main demand of the Huks is for abolition of the absentee landlord system; or, failing that, for enforcement of an already existing rice tenancy law (70% for the tenant, 30% for the landlord). The late President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President...
...Main reason behind the move is the recent high number of scholarship students who have fallen below Group Three standing in their first year. "Many times a C-plus instead of a B-minus has meant a boy cannot continue in College, just because he has fallen into some hard luck," Dean Leighton stated. Because of the existence of the present arbitrary rule, an existence of the present arbitrary rule, an excessive emphasis is placed on "grade grabbing," he remarked...