Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame! Shame!" There was passionate talk of starving German children, of unnecessarily cruel treatment, of the "greatest catastrophe the human race ever experienced." Cried Labor's Michael Foot: "We are protesting against the wanton and deliberate creation of a new sore [in Europe]." Charged Independent Sir Arthur Salter: "If . . . millions during this winter freeze and starve, this will not have been the inevitable consequences of [war]." The implication was that Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia were deliberately creating chaos in Germany. One M.P. accused the U.S. of the same "lunatic policy...
...Race Horses & Chicks. In three months, Skyways' seven ace-manned Conestogas (on which California's Bank of America now holds a $58,000 mortgage) have hopped all over the U.S. barnstorming for cargo to fly. President Prescott has fixed his own fat prices ($1,600 for a full-plane, coast-to-coast trip), charged shippers double the one-way price when planes have had to deadhead to Skyways' base in Los Angeles...
Five hundred and fifteen scientists who were engaged in war research on the atomic bomb at Harvard and M.I.T. released a statement Wednesday to plead for international control of atomic energy and to "alert the American people and government to the terrible consequences of an armament race with atomic weapons...
...didn't have a chance of election. I didn't try to appeal to specific economic and racial groups, but I told the voters I would just work for an honest and efficiently managed school system." He came in fifth out of six in a proportional representation race that was featured by the multiplicity of viewpoints and candidates...
...Rockingham Park (N.H.) race track, one day last week, three betters split $25,843 on a daily double. It was Page One news in Boston...