Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose 32 years in Congress had lulled him into thinking he could never be beaten. Marshall, who had been Minnesota's Farm Security administrator for six years, picked up Harry Truman's line, argued that Knutson's 1948 tax-cut bill was "a rebate to the rich...
...defend China's heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight...
...danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields to the south and one to the north. The new airstrip, hastily carved out of dirt road this week...
Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided using a specifically modern idiom because it would soon be obsolete again; his aim was to achieve a kind of timeless English...
...ones were "Oaks In Winter," because it is like all the other poems written by young girls about trees and flowers, although technically, I suppose, it is quite good; and "Narcissus," because it is too hard to follow. The good ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid, and she has created an image toward the end that is in itself one of the finest...