Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Parliament convenes in special session. Labor faces stormy days. Said one Labor leader: "I've got indigestion from eating my own words on devaluation."
Chancellor Adenauer's government faced plenty of parliamentary fights with its enemies and with its own supporters; but that was not necessarily a cause for worry. In its first days, the new German legislature had behaved no more irresponsibly than any of the Continent's traditionally raucous parliaments...
Comfort from Moscow. One of the Northwest's Nationalist strong men had been General Fu Tso-yi, who was called from the Suiyuan back country to defend North China. Last February, outnumbered and outmaneuvered, Fu surrendered Peiping and his own allegiance to the Communists. Last week his new masters...
To clinch his point, Poet Ivanissevich concluded with one of his own compositions :
Another aid to Kiner's hitting is his movie camera and projector. Part of his homework is studying slow-motion pictures of himself at bat, looking for telltale hitches, lunges and hesitations. At the first sign of any break in his smooth-flowing style he goes to work on...