Word: range
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucky." The world could be sure that the Russians would squeeze Barsov for every last drop of propaganda-value. But Barsov had some explaining to do himself. In his shabby room in Washington a TIME correspondent found another document, like the diary in his own handwriting. It rang with Marxian clichés ("Now I am in the hands of those 'whistling dancers'-men who obtained control . . . through a cruel exploiting of the working class") and the sickening self-accusations of the Moscow purge trials. Wrote Barsov: "I am giving this confession maybe before dying." He had made...
...Birnbaum's doorbell rang early one morning and an excited man broke the news. Alfred and Edna Birnbaum, lucky people, had won a $15,000 prefab house raffle ticket. But, they soon found, it takes a heap of money to make a free house a home...
Mink & Trout. Last year Curtiss farms, stocked with 900 dairy cows, 9,000 hens (output: 2.5 million eggs annually), 8,000 turkeys, 200 beef cattle and 6,000 purebred hogs, rang up some $1,750,000 in sales. Schnering went into the risky business of raising broilers and, after experimenting with the chicks' diet, cut the growing time from twelve weeks to eleven weeks. He grossed $785,000 on 550,000 broilers...
...telephone rang in Eleanor Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. It was Cardinal Spellman on the line. Two weeks before, angry at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to federal aid to parochial schools, he had accused her of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother," and announced flatly that no matter what Mrs. Roosevelt had further to say, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge...
...phone rang; the caller was Sophocles Venizelos, a Liberal who had previously gone along with Tsaldaris. He had changed his mind. The happy faces began to bead with sweat. There was nothing to be done; the candidates went home...