Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refuge. As 1950 drew to a close, much of the U.S. looked and acted-even if it did not feel-surprisingly like a country without a care in the world. A few big official parties, such as the inaugural ball which had been planned in honor of South Carolina'...
At Inchon, 964 Korean orphans and other waifs of war, aged six months to eleven years, were waiting to be taken to an island off the South Korean coast. Some of the older ones were too weak from starvation to walk, or too sick (e.g., with scabies, whooping cough, tuberculosis...
Areas which had previously depended on graded inclines to attract the slat-burdened visitor have added new trails; places which required a good deal of snow to cover their trails have spent time and money grading and treating the hills to make skiing on thinly covered slopes almost a pleasure...
In revealing Winkler's appointment, the Government department spokesman declared that although the department was merely picking the best available man, it was "glad to give refuge" to one of the California dissenters. He asserted Winkler was "not a Communist."
Let's Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars' special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband's stuffy family for custody of her son, Singer Hutton takes refuge in...