Word: runge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intentions-it was going to spit him, spin him over the fires of righteousness until sin dripped out of him like gravy, and lug him back to President Truman looking like a huge shish kebab. While no formal announcement was made, G.O.P. members implied that church bells would be rung, cannon fired, and flags run up on public buildings as soon as he was cooked...
...have rung the bell again with the article in your Aug. 15 issue on the Chinese situation as handled in the State Department's white paper. It is clearly written and easily understood. It gives the American public a good idea of the mess China is in, and of our foreign policy, past and present, with the Chiang Kai-shek government...
...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
...strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an airplane pilot in World War I, he came back to the "Q" as a division engineer and toiled faithfully at assorted jobs, touching every rung on the ladder as he climbed. If hard work could keep the "Q" highballing, Harry Murphy...
Church bells will ring for Radcliffe's seniors today as they march across Cambridge Common, but they've rung already for the 'Cliffe's top graduate...