Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson Tradition. To be up-to-date about Kansas City, every citizen has to read what Roy Roberts wants him to. Roberts' Star has no competition. The afternoon Star subscriber must also take its morning edition, the Times, and the Sunday Star. Circulation of each paper is above...
...Kremlin's line: "a plan for the enslavement of the peoples of working Europe by the American imperialists." Others, like British Presslord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, have a different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept the [$3,750,000,000] loan. It made us live artificially, beyond our means, while you profited over there. Now we've got to begin...
...Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more for our money if we decline to be bothered by them...
...local Communist press grew restive and menacing. Tyokansan Sanomat (News of the Working People) snarled that the opponents of the pact were "dirty intriguers who imagine that by trying to postpone a solution they can still discover a way to join the imperialistic war camp. . . . This rubbish element must be wiped out of history, at least in the next elections, if not earlier...
...threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby herself. Some thought the letters must come from a member of the church choir: caustic remarks about their singing regularly arrived for the choristers. Sample: "If you must sing, get some bird seed...