Word: na
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were all the boys atop the reviewing stand at Tienanmen Square as usual, dressed in their formless grey tu nics, trousers and caps and led by Mao Tse-tung himself. The grouping showed no real change in the hierarchy, but last week's celebration of China's Na tional Day was still unusual. Only 500,-000 gathered at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace, compared with last year's 1,500,000. The parade lasted only two hours instead of the previous four. In place of last year's 20-ft. colossus, there...
Tried & Failed. As a result, employer-obtained labor injunctions largely disappeared. Even the Taft-Hartley Act, which gave the President power to seek an 80-day strike injunction when the na tional health or safety was imperiled, did not make much difference. In the 20 years since it became law, it has been invoked only 28 times...
...father's paranoid suspicions, and "the life of almost everyone was cut short in some tragic fashion" -prison, firing squad, madness. When the Germans captured Svetlana's half brother Yakov during the war, Stalin refused to exchange him for a Nazi general and Yakov was executed. Svetla na's brother Vasily, an air force lieutenant general at 24, became an alcoholic and an embezzler and' died a ruin. In telling all this, she shows a natural eloquence only occasionally marred by sentimentality...
...pudgy medicine man has steadily tightened his reign of terror. And ever since last April, when two bombs rocked downtown Port-au-Prince during a na tional party celebrating his 60th birthday and his tenth year in power, Papa Doc has been exercising his authority with a vengeance. In four brutal months...
...their $100,000 investment: he ranks fourth in the league in batting with an average of .330. Rookie Pitcher Don Wilson, 22, has won four games, and two weeks ago hurled a no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves - the first in the Astrodome and the first by any Na tional League pitcher in two years. Then there is Jimmie Wynn...