Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smashing up nightclubs is a fairly common occurrence in Shanghai. There are plenty of incidents: four sailors walking into a Hong Kong shop, grabbing seven bottles of vodka and walking out; a G.I. slugging a pedicab driver because he rang his bell behind him; G.I.s driving their Army vehicle through the window of a bar because they thought they had been gypped...
...speak on "The Challenge of the Atomic Bomb." It was a time and a topic that pressed humility upon the brows of larger men, searching their hearts to root out the seeds of conflict with their fellows. Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts. Tinnily, his arrogant challenge rang through the Astor Hotel's crowded ballroom...
...high, earnest voice rang with new confidence. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was sure that his Government, having survived the war itself, would overcome "the ravages, dislocations and internal disturbances" of the war's aftermath...
Police charged the paraders. Shots rang out. From all corners of Calcutta reinforcements, Hindu and Moslem, flocked to the student side. For three days demonstrators stormed through the city...
...this subject his audience was more taut. When Molotov promised that Russia would have "atomic energy and many other things," the party leaders cheered until bells rang to stop them...