Word: reds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While Red armies swept unchecked toward Canton, news came of a jolt to Communist hopes in China's far Northwest. Last month 120,000 Reds under General Peng Teh-huai had chased an old Nationalist adversary, moody General Hu Tsung-nan, from the stronghold of Sian (see map). The way to rich Szechuan province and its famed capital Chungking seemed open. Instead, Communist Peng's men, thrusting on from Sian, rushed into a trap; it was the Chinese Red army's first defeat since the start of their all-out offensive...
...hands down-19,030 votes to 5,780 for Das. Congress leaders were plainly worried. Nehru blamed Congressmen for losing their fervor and for self-seeking-"If we cannot revitalize Congress we must dissolve it in a dignified manner rather than allow it to disintegrate by stages." A Red cloud, though not yet bigger than a man's hand, had appeared on the Congress horizon...
...Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustaf V turned 91. His traditional birthday fishing party was rained out (the day before he had landed a five-pound pike with no help from anyone); so he celebrated indoors, with a half-bottle of red wine for lunch, and a visit from great-grandson Prince Carl Gustaf, 3, who brought flowers and homemade birthday candles...
Illustrated had given monthly science lessons (at 25? an issue) to the "educated layman"; by last month, 35-year-old Editor John Whiting had enrolled an impressive 531,000 readers in his correspondence course. But right from the start, Science Illustrated had been deep in the red. McGraw-Hill, which aims most of its soberly successful, specialized magazines at comparatively small markets, found it a tougher trick to sell Science Illustrated to mass-market advertisers. All told, staffers estimated that McGraw-Hill had dropped several million dollars on the experiment in science...
...have youse marry me until I kin give youse ever'thing in the world." Today he talks almost as elegantly as Gene Tunney. In 19 years, Joe has also grown older (he is now 24), taller and heavier. But he is just as clean-living, unsophisticated, tolerant and red-blooded an American as ever, and as innocent as if he never had a man-to-man talk about life with Man-about-Manhattan Fisher. Palooka is still world's heavyweight champion, and with movies (26 so far), radio, testimonials, etc., is a champion moneymaker ($375,000 a year...