Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful old...
...four-year-old Parliament had just disposed of the last big item on Labor's 1945 election program: nationalization of the British steel industry. The House of Commons and the House of Lords, long at loggerheads over the steel bill (TIME, June 21, 1948), had worked out a compromise. The lords agreed to pass the bill without further ado if the government would not make it effective until after the 1950 general election. "Vesting day" for the steel industry was set for Jan. 1, 1951. Thus, if the Tories win, they can repeal the law before any steel plants...
...hanging the assassin," said Gandhi's old newspaper Harijan, "there is something which positively takes away from the glory of the Mahatma . . . Granting of life to murderers . . . would be an act . . . of which only a government trained by Gandhi might dream of doing...
...down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
...windowless teachers' room of the Nadke High School (during the war the headquarters of the U.S. 96th Division), old, bushy-haired Principal Matsugoro Shimabukuro sighed: "The students here are too puzzled to have any fixed hopes. Why bother to graduate from high school if the only job you can get is working on a labor gang for the American Air Force...