Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the Merrimack River, the textile mills hummed and chattered. The cobbled main street was thronged with shopping housewives, suits moved briskly off the rack; at Nick Maloof's restaurant ("where the elite meet the dawn") business was fine. Said Austin O'Toole, owner of the town's biggest market: "These people aren't on pork & beans. You know the first thing we sold out today? Lobster...
...most important Communist move was a rapid eastward thrust toward the coast, to cut the Shanghai-Canton railroad and encircle Shanghai itself. Another Red force, farther north, was thrusting toward Hangchow, 121 miles from Shanghai. The capture of Shanghai itself seemed near. Its main defense was a pathetic wooden fence, 35 miles long, fashioned from 10-foot stakes (originally UNRRA lumber). In the Shanghai-Hangchow area, 350,000 Nationalist troops were being pressed in a pocket against...
Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...
...main, Muñoz and Tugwell worked together harmoniously, though Muñoz was more conservative than New Dealer Tugwell. Tugwell could never get over the fact that Muñoz acted sometimes like a high-minded idealist, sometimes like a job-hungry political boss. Muñoz, on the other hand, found it difficult to convince Tugwell that even an idealistic politician needs enough patronage to grease the machine and win the next election. Tugwell, under fire from the sugar industry, the press and the U.S. Congress for most of is stay, resigned...
...main difference between the two groups is that those who are on at night seem to have more to do with the freshmen than the other group. They are, for the most part high school girls, while these on earlier are older...