Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Nanking Road, Shanghai's main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served...
David E. Lilienthal, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, will be the main speaker at the annual literary exercises of Harvard Chapter Phi Beta Kappa at 11 a.m. Monday, June 20 in Sanders Theater. The exercises are open to the public...
Right Down Main Street. The folks around Parnell remember young Ben as a rough one. Quick as a cat and strong.as a bull, he could lick any young buck in the county, and frequently did, and he would bet on anything...
Parnell really buzzed the day that young Ben, who had ridden cow ponies on his father's farm since he was four, thundered down Main Street in an impromptu match race for $5 a side. There also came the day when a riot was threatened after he single-handedly attacked a group of Italians and felled one of them with a stone; his father hustled Ben off to a logging camp until things cooled...
...Philadelphia Museum of Art played host to a motionless throng last week: 252 figures stood about the main hall and on the museum terrace. They were there for Philadelphia's Third Sculpture International (previous shows were held in 1933 and 1940) and a share of the award-money...