Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yugoslavia looked more than ever like a police state. Belgrade street scenes were like cutbacks to old newsreels of the rise of Naziism. Booted feet tramped out their brazen songs. OZNA, the Communist secret police, was supervising the election campaign. Tito's big army showed no inclination to demobilize...
Movies & Books. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Eagles' rise is that they have done it with the T. Greasy Neale went to Philadelphia as a general practitioner, with just about every known variety of formation in his bag-except the T. He added that after watching the Chicago Bears pulverize the Washington Redskins, 73-0. The modernized, tricked-up version of the old-hat T was just beginning to catch on; the Bears, with Quarterback Sid Luckman handling the ball and directing his team's fabulous repertory of 300 plays, were powerful persuaders...
...Early to Rise. At 7:15 next morning-45 minutes before breakfast-the President strolled out of the hotel. The lines of fatigue had vanished from his face. He was chewing gum. He did what most visitors to a small town do when there is nothing else to do: he walked down to the railroad station. Then he went on down to the Mississippi River bank and performed the local rite of spitting in it. He dropped in at the telegraph office. He met a friend, the postmaster, and talked crops and swapped gossip with...
...necessary dependence on interpreters, the striking number of higher-rank officers in residence with mistresses of vanished Nazi bigwigs, the general air of maladroitness and cumbersome effort had given rise to a bitter description. By Germans, and by many a discerning G.I., the U.S. occupation rule of Germany and Austria was being called "the government of interpreters and mistresses...
...Tsar's police an underground chase), Pravda grew to 3,000,000 before World War II. Lately the print order has been around 2,000,000 (about the same as the biggest seller in the U.S., the nationalist tabloid New York Daily News), could easily rise to three times that-if Pravda could only get more paper. Price: 20 kopecks (about...