Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New Harmonies. Smuts's argument sounded logical enough, but ordinary logic does not rule the Commonwealth. Britain and the other Commonwealth nations wanted India in the family, no matter how nebulous the arrangement. For over a week, the Ministers debated the issue with India's sad-eyed Prime...
Enter, Blondie. The coming of democracy has had its greatest impact on Japanese women. Before the war they were virtually without legal rights. Now they vote, own property, attend square dances, go to coeducational schools and eagerly discuss the advantages of love matches over the ancient Japanese custom of marriage...
Japan is desperately poor. Miles of gaping ruins still deface the land, though in the big cities jerry-built warrens of small houses and shops hide some of the scars of bomb destruction. The crowds that haggle over prices in Tokyo's Shimbashi market are only slightly better dressed...
Economics of Defeat. When MacArthur took over Japan, the country's economic situation was desperate. For decades, Japan, one of the world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was...
"I can't believe the Huks did it," said shocked President Elpidio Quirino, when he heard the news. "Mrs. Quezon was loved too much." Police assured Quirino that the Huks were responsible, all right. At Doña Aurora's funeral, the sobbing President placed a single flower...