Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatly refused to return home. He also refused to pay for the funeral. "Look," he said, as his baffled sons tried to guess whom they had buried, "I've had all my teeth out. My plates fit. I feel fine. After 44 years I got tired of living with Jennie. This is the life...
...office lacks even a telephone) Jan. 1, the refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight again another...
...step aside and hasten negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from Shanghai. While the Gimo conferred, Nanking surged with discussion of the Communist terms...
...absence of effective competition," said the complaint, "has tended to defeat effective public regulation of [telephone] rates . . . since the higher the prices charged by Western for telephone apparatus and equipment, the higher the plant investment on which [A.T. & T.'s] operating companies are entitled to earn a reasonable return...
...exams are to teach as well as to test, the knowledge of their results must include far more than a grade scrawled on a postcard or machine-typed onto a form letter. Final exams take a tremendous amount of time from student as well as instructor; the return of these exams, even if only temporary, would do much to make that time expenditure more worthwhile...