Word: melons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of the Red Academy, he took off his trousers for comfort while studying a military map. He smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could buy more cigarettes. Between noisy puffs, he chews melon seeds or peanuts. Until recently, when his doctors made him slow up, he used to wash down his heavy meals with kaoliang (grain liquor). Since then Mao has become something of a hypochondriac...
...score was kept in the informal meet, but the varsity helped itself to more than its share of the melon, picking up five firsts to four for Northeastern...
Pretty Picture. Eastman Kodak Co., which has had a profit-sharing plan since 1912, will cut a fat melon. It will distribute a wage dividend of around $13 million for 1948. The 51,500 eligible employees will receive 2.25% of the pay they got from the company from 1944 through 1948. Typical bonus...
...trains and rumbling trucks disgorged comrades from the hinterland. By noon, Rome's streets were jammed with perspiring, singing men, women & children-most of them wearing red bandannas and clutching lunch hampers. Brazenly they occupied chairs and tables in sidewalk cafes, opened their lunches and nibbled leisurely, tossing melon rinds and bread crusts into the streets. Outraged cafe owners cursed the invaders. The comrades only laughed: "This is the people...
...that gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...