Word: nia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viens, Xerxes! Viens, Xenophon! Viens, Xénia! Viens, Xénopol...
Given the kind of progress he meant, Esperantists east of the iron curtain would be expected to chant in unison: "Vivu nia grandega ĉefo Stalin!" Ĉefo means leader; the rest is easy...
...apparently not helped his neck-&-neck rival Bob Taft (whose press secretary last week explained that Taft was not an "active" candidate). Despite an awed respect for Taft's mind, the pros were as conscious as ever of his lack of political sex appeal. Said a Califor nia GOPster: "Taft is a fine and capable man. If it was a matter of hiring the President of the U.S., he'd be the man for the job. But we're still electing Presidents...
...project would cost $190 million, wants to model the new capital-to be called Brasilia-after Washington, D.C. For scoffers, the General has two reminders : 1) 41 years ago Brazilian dreamers planned the model city which is today the lively, bustling reality of Bello Horizonte; 2) Golánia, the model capital of the state of Goiaz, was only a gleam in a city planner's eye five years...
...order created a National Intelligence Authority, charged with correlating, evaluating, coordinating all information that can be gathered about foreign powers. The bulk of the work of the director of NIA will be with vast, nonsecret facts about economies, populations, politics. But the U.S. is also going to join, after all these years, in the game of spying on the neighbors. Harry Truman did not say so, but that is the idea...