Word: porch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skirting the center of the fire he brought five Chinese soldiers to a makeshift hospital. There, in a palm-treed courtyard on an open, unroofed stone porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...
Under Congress' present price law, OPA cannot extend its ceiling over wages, most current farm prices or rents except in defense areas. But once all nonagricultural prices are roofed over, adding porch roofs will be easier. Then labor will lose a huge lever to pry up raises; desk farmers will lose a big excuse for boosting wheat and corn prices; landlords will have a hard time justifying higher rents...
...donned an ill-fitting suit and high stiff collar, breakfasted lightly at 8, then spent several hours conferring with his staff, writing dispatches, seeing the press. Except for a 25-minute break for lunch, he interviewed Indian leaders from midmorning until 8 p.m. He met them on the porch, led them through the large-pillared hall to his study, offered them cigarets and then got down to business. After dinner and more staff talks, he called on the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow...
...back to report that he had so much domestic trouble he preferred jail. He was readmitted. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Anthony Tesco went free after serving a jail term for assaulting his brother-in-law, went to his mother-in-law's house and knocked her off the back porch...
...Annie doesn't like the soldiers on the back porch. . . . They are looking through the window at Annie. She hates that." "They are doing no harm," said the Colonel. "Well, Annie hates to be stared at." Soon "from the doorway came the sound of an angry woman's voice and a thump and a man's cry." The butler scuttled...