Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ram and the prices were right. Nourished by all three, the world's grainfields were blooming. Hunger might come again next year, out crop reports indicated that 1946's worst was over...
...important matter was the mysterious death-by-gunshot of Siam's young King Ananda (TIME, June 17). Siamese officialdom has insisted that the death was purely accidental. Police Chief Phra Ram Indra even shot a pig before the whole Parliament to prove that the absence of powder burns on Ananda's face meant nothing...
...election day last week was orderly, the polling apparently honest. The result was a smashing victory for President Ramón Grau San Martín's left-wing regime, his Auténtico Party and Communist supporters. Grau's man, Manuel Fernandez Supervielle, won Havana's mayorship, the island's No. 2 political job. Most of the island's 125 new mayors would also be Grau men. Apparently enough Grau legislative candidates won to give the President, for the first time, a majority in Congress...
...toilet paper, when you need it you need it bad." With this pearl rattling in his diplomatic pouch, Lanny leaves for London. He has to get a wiggle on because Upton Sinclair wants him 1) to take in the blitz, 2) to get back to F.D.R. in time to ram through the destroyer deal. He does both, easy as falling off a green baize table, and Roosevelt admiringly admits: "I need you, and that's no applesauce...
...country stopped but a few trains and trams, members of the Communist-controlled Cuban Confederation of Labor swung past Havana's presidential palace to the conga beat of a hit tune called America Immortal. Their secretary, Communist Làzaro Peña, stood with President Ramón Grau San Martin as he reviewed the parade from his balcony...