Word: oriente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discussing his outlook on world economy with particular reference to the Orient, Alvin, H. Hansen, Lucins N. Littauer. Professor of Political Economy will be the guest speaker of the Oriental Club which will hold its first meeting on Monday night at eight o'clock in the Lowell Common Room...
Geography, old hates and fears, and honest military opinion unite the diverse groups who believe the defeat of Japan more urgent and more important than the defeat of Germany. The West Coast faces the Orient. Isolationists still nourish their conviction that the U.S. has no business in Europe's messes, still argue privately that anyway Japan is the only one who has yet attacked us. Anglophobes suspect Britain, Red haters fear Russia. The Hearst press has not forgotten the Yellow Peril. Further, a considerable number of sense-making military officers and civilian observers believe and can show that Japan...
Striking is old stuff to the tough, hardened, cough-ridden miners of "dark and bloody" southern Illinois. But this time, when the deadline came on Friday night, it was different. In the bars of West Frankfort, among the men from Orient No. 2 (world's largest producer of soft coal) and Old Ben, there was an undercurrent of uneasiness; many had the shadow of a feeling of shame. The men were solidly behind Old John L., they would do what he said, all right. But their hearts were troubled; it took only a few beers to reveal a slightly...
Next morning, early, as the dew glistened on the cropped grass and the lilac bushes in front of Orient No. 2, no miners reported for the early shift. The whistle blew. "Let her blow," said a miner. "Sure, let her blow her head off." The miners were busy at other chores, mostly gardening. Said a grey-haired miner in faded overalls, spading his bean patch: "I hate to quit now. I got boys in the service and I realize what it might mean to the Government...
...corporations last week reported on their war losses in the Orient...