Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been changed to Voroshilov Street." The peasant then asked how to find Italia Street. "You go that way," said the policeman, "but its new name is Vishinsky Street." The peasant inquired about Vigado Square. "You'll pass it on your way," said the policeman, "but you must call it Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over the Danube, saw the peasant staring morosely into the water. "You don't seem to have followed my directions," the policeman remarked. "Not yet," said the peasant; "I was just standing here thinking how big the Moskva...
...already seized the troops awaiting air transport. Soldiers, ignoring orders, were fighting their way on to planes already on the field. Intermingled in the disorderly jam of troops, women dressed in soldiers' uniforms struggled to keep squalling infants from getting crushed. "My God," drawled a tall Texan, "they must think these planes are made of rubber...
According to official estimates, there are 45 million Untouchables in India and slightly less than three million in Pakistan. Their touch, their shadow, even their mere presence is considered polluting by some caste Hindus. In some villages they must wait by the well, pot in hand, till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their...
...firm replied, saying: "We feel we have a good answer to the last question at least: the ferret is a grandfather, and must be presumed to have had some experience." The firm filled out the union card, returned it, and Freddie was solemnly accepted by the union as a member. Freddie's job has also been insured against any neuropsychological complications: to prevent frustration, he is given a rabbit at the end of each day's work...
...woman at the door would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...