Word: power
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Manchuria eastward through Sinkiang, along some 3,500 miles of Inner Asian border between Russia and China, a great shift in power neared completion last week. The vast, potentially rich (oil, coal, gold, wolfram, uranium) territory known as China's Northwest was falling into the Communist orbit...
...Belanger, "on the 6th of February, 1948," shortly after two daughters had sickened and died. "A big wind ran through the house, and the children saw their sisters clothed like little saints and accompanied by the Holy Virgin." Soon, Bélanger claims, each child acquired equal power and began to perform "many cures...
...smooth-flowing style he goes to work on himself. Unlike most contemporary sluggers, Kiner digs into a wide-legged stance at the plate and takes almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into his own swats, Leftfielder Kiner uses the same delicate combination that is found in a perfect golf swing-pivot, wrist-snap and timing...
...American farmer under the present price support program." With these politicking words for the folks on the farm, Michigan's Republican Congressman Jesse Wolcott, 28 years in Congress as "a friend of the farmer," last week suggested a bill to raise the CCC's borrowing power to $5.7 billion, an increase of a cool $1 billion...
Last week, at 70, Juan March (rhymes with park) staged one of the most audacious strokes of his audacious career. He snatched Spain's biggest public utility, the $250 million Ebro Irrigation & Power Co., Ltd., away from an international electrical combine run by a U.S. businessman and partly financed by U.S. and British investors...