Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slushy winter morning a good driver, as he speeds past, can hit as many as a dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel-plated, jingling coin-collectors at the entering passenger's belly like a gunman wielding...
Last week the President also: ¶ Followed the progress of new Treasury Minister Ramón Beteta's talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Mexico reportedly wants $400 million for more industrialization...
...total 5,000,000 votes. In Argentina, their 120,000-strong party recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they have three ministers in the new Cabinet. But in corrupt, revolution-weary Mexico the Commies, with a core of 9,000, have lost considerably in influence and Government patronage. These were...
...important right wing leader, who declined to be quoted by name, told reporters that left wing extremists were forced to accept the strong Anti-Communist language by a threat to ram it down their throats" on the convention floor this week...
...even the delegates to the Paris conference could say for sure what UNESCO was all about until after they had decided on a director-general, an 18-man executive board and a plan of action. If the optimists were right, UNESCO might become a battering ram, capable of knocking down national barriers to international understanding. If the cynics were right, UNESCO would be just another grandiose 20th Century balloon, with a big cheer at the ascension but in the end just a bag of wind. One basic drawback: Soviet Russia so far has not joined...