Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the Numbers. By Western standards, Soviet weddings are not really weddings at all, but a bit of bureaucratic business that young couples must go through at the local bureau of ZAGS, where births, deaths and marriages alike are registered. The couple can turn up in ordinary work clothes, get...
"We do not only work," complained the farmers. "We love, we get married, we raise our children. We are people, and nothing human is alien to us. Speaking frankly, comrade writers, some of your books simply make us feel sorry for you. Suppose you read a book about writers in...
Fourteen years after a war in which the country narrowly escaped being overrun by the Japanese, Australia's "populate or perish" program has brought 1,400,000 European settlers to its shores. Half of them are "New Australians" (meaning Continental Europeans), who are changing the look and sounds of...
Strictly Continental. On Sydney buses and Brisbane trams, German and Italian accents now mingle with the cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of...
The current blacklist, drawn up in Cairo, names 48 American firms. Included are Empire Brushes Inc., Kaiser Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and Plough Sales Corp., because they have branches or agencies in Israel. Individual Arab countries have their own blacklists, which are even more capriciously kept. Philco radios and...