Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebels approached Sunchon city peacefully; but as soon as they entered the city, police opened fire. Joined by a company of soldiers guarding the city bridge, the rebels fired back. After a short, sharp battle they were in full control. The hundred or so cops who surrendered were lined up against the wall of the police compound and riddled. Then the rebels, joined by part of the citizenry, paraded through the city under North Korea's Communist banner, singing "Ten thousand years to the North Korean People's Republic...
Into Power. Peru's new strong man is short, pudgy, but light on his feet. He has a sharp nose, bright little eyes, receding hair. He plays chess, loves bullfights and opera, enjoys an occasional pisco but does not smoke. With his wife and two sons he lives in a modest house on the unfashionable side of Avenida Arequipa...
...Nixon that stuff," observed the oracle. "We won't Mead any Moore Powers than we had last week. We Cohn have them hanging from the Chandler, so keep your Cappon. I won't Sella you short...
...Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive, which has been contributing 200 pints of Harvard blood to the Red Cross each term for free distribution in Massachusetts hospitals, is 50 pints short of its quota this fall...
After watching New York by traditional methods, cars should head for the Holland Tunnel and follow U. S. Route 1 over the Pulaski Skyway and down through Elizabeth. South of New Brungwick, a short road cuts off to Princeton. There are signs all along...