Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Architect Robert Montgomery Brown, who found that his friends were drinking up $2,400 worth of his liquor a year, decided to ask guests to sign chits for their drinks, receive monthly accounts payable in return drinks. Said Brown: "It equalizes the drinking and discourages guzzlers...
...mistaken. .. ." The Communists proceeded to consolidate their victory. The Central Action Committee formally declared itself "the center of all public life." The purge of "negatively disposed" politicians, judges, editors and teachers continued. Zdenek ("the Red Grandfather") Nejedly, the new Minister of Education, declared: "Stalin's picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova Politika ("New Politics"). Foreign publications (including TIME & LIFE) were banned. The Ministry of Information instructed foreign correspondents to stop "malicious distortion of news...
...commented: "I used to know this damned vodka rather well, but I'm no longer in the habit of drinking it. I must have been bien soûl [pretty plastered], and somebody must have said something I didn't like. So I hit him. Then in return they beat me up; I guess they had to suppress me, after all. There is no political meaning...
Whenever Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big decision to make, he liked to get away from his desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false...
...feats and tactics of the powerful Crimson polo aggregations of old. But plans are under consideration to build an indoor cage to practice in. Under this scheme the player sits astride a wooden horse and bangs the ball against the sloping sides of the enclosure, which, via gravity, return the pellet for another clout...