Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a dangerous oversimplification in that theory. If carried to extremes, it would bind the U.S. to help any unsavory opportunist professing antiCommunism. But Wedemeyer saw no such danger in Chiang's case: "I personally think he is a fine character. He is the logical leader of China today. I went there prepared not to like him, from things I had heard. He needs our help and he should...
Leather-tough old Vallabhbhai Patel, Minister in Charge of States Affairs, last week saw a chance to get rid of some of the princely states that pimple India. In little Nilgiri, near the east coast, Hindu Congress Party members who live in towns on the plains have been trying to get rid of their maharaja and join the Dominion. But most of his subjects are broad-faced, pug-nosed aborigines, who fled to the eastern hills nearly 40 centuries ago when Aryans invaded India. These near-naked tribesmen came down from the hills on the warpath (at the maharaja...
Susie Kirk, 58-year-old soap heiress (Kirkman's Soap Flakes), faced the new year with at least one worry off her mind. A Chicago court saw her point when she pointed out that money isn't what it used to be and it costs more now to make ends meet. She thus won a boost in her annual trust allowance-from a grinding $30,866 to a humane...
...crowds (2,600,000 last year) outnumber Florida's horse-race fans. Last week, thousands of Miamians saw the horses run at Gulfstream in the afternoon, then hustled down to the Biscayne Kennel Club to go to the dogs by night. The track sprawled like a giant outdoor roulette wheel, which is about what it is. Chasing after Swifty, the mechanical rabbit that never loses a race, were eight greyhounds clawing and skidding around turns at close to 40 m.p.h.-as fast as a race horse runs. Most fans, who couldn't remember the name...
...wartime players. Connoisseurs of team-play began missing one of the game's biggest thrills: the sight of two wings and a center flashing abreast down the ice', two enemy defensemen getting set for impact, the deft passes, the shot, the clear-cut scoring play. Instead, they saw a game that was more like high-pressure "shinny...