Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, the 1,470-ton British sloop Amethyst steamed slowly up the Yangtze toward Nanking. On her starboard hand, massed for the assault across the river, lay the Communist armies. The Amethyst, with a 17-ft. Union Jack painted on each side of her grey steel hull, plowed the yellow-silted waters with assurance, a frail symbol of waning Western power in China. The Amethyst was to stand by the Chinese capital to protect British citizens. She never made...
When all the characters were safely in side, Kio carefully screwed down the top. From the band came a short burst of jazz music and Kio opened up the head again. The gunmen, chorus girls and dwarfs were gone; all that was left was a scrap of paper: the Atlantic pact...
Playboy-Golfer Frank Stranahan, heir to Champion Spark Plug millions, who plays aggressive championship golf for the fun of it (British, Canadian, and Mexican amateur champion), and lifts weights on the side for his figure, bulged a few of his better muscles for the camera (see cut) in Pinehurst, N.C. Then he whacked out a few of his better shots to add the North-South Amateur crown to his collection, for the second time...
...Places. At 29, little Nora Kaye is the closest thing ballet has to the theater's Tragedienne Judith Anderson. Her father, Gregory Koreff, onetime Moscow Art Theater actor, fascinated her as a child with his living-room characterizations ("in the Stanislavsky tradition") in the family's East Side apartment. But because her mother wanted her to dance, and because she liked dancing better than school, Nora headed for the Metropolitan...
...each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid on the other." His solid matter includes such stories as Arizona's side of the current water squabble with California...