Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order in the China of Mao's youth was crumbling under the influence of Western civilization, like a broken mummy suddenly exposed to the harsh air. China tried to reproduce 500 years of Western evolution in a few decades. Twentieth Century China was to have bombers before it had a good rail system, radios before it had more than a few telephones. Chinese shouted Communist slogans before they could read. Galileo and Einstein, Jefferson and Karl Marx came to China all at once. The nation's youth desperately wanted to grasp the future. What the future was, they...
Britain's balky, bumbling Foreign Secretary Bevin had been urged by the U.S. to grant recognition before the Israeli elections last week, in order to encourage the Israeli moderates against the extremists. But Bevin stubbornly refused to be hustled. As it turned out, the Israeli moderates did well anyway...
...making minor concessions but holding fast to major positions. The atmosphere was that of "a comfortable chess game," but a Briton from the Foreign Office said that if his government should join the U.S. in putting on pressure for peace, a formula would pop up at Rhodes in short order...
...Goodbye." The speaker mumbled a ruling. "Mr. Speaker has ruled that the word is in order," snapped Bustamante, glowering at the member from East Westmoreland. "There is only one twisted person here. You. Goodbye." As he strode from the chamber, he called on his party's eight representatives to follow him. All except Education Minister Jehoida Augustus McPherson...
...government printing offices, the King's Printer had begun turning out an order for 400,000 copies of General Election Instructions, a guide for election officials. If events in the House of Commons kept going the way George Drew had started them, the books might be needed sooner than most expected...