Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in...
Furthermore, "selection of the Negro group for this treatment is arbitrary." It is not used against Jews, Mexicans, Poles or other groups, but is "selectively used against the poor and friendless [Negroes]. Ralph Bunche ... is not usually labeled." (But when Bunche won the Nobel Prize a fortnight ago, the Trib...
Many of the company's poles had rotted and fallen; much of its wire had corroded and snapped. Dr. Bryan hired a young lineman to put in new poles and wire, spotting the bad breaks in the system himself as he drove around the countryside on his calls. He...
For years Dr. Bryan paid for all the improvements by plowing profits back into the business. But last week, faced with rising costs, he was forced to petition the Tennessee Public Utilities Commission for a raise in rates. The country folk, grateful to Dr. Bryan for operating so successfully on...
Its approaches are deceptively peaceful. Water buffaloes patiently drag plows through the flooded rice fields; wiry little peasant women in circular straw hats, chocolate-colored jackets and black trousers pitpat swiftly along the roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As...