Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thank you very much for your thorough view of occupied Japan . . . I want to tell you that we are steadily recovering from moral chaos . . . Small kind behaviorisms are seen in the street very much oftener now than just after the war. If we are able to go through the economic hardships of this year and the next, we should be one of the peaceful and honest nations of the world...
...government are concerned. Led by highbrowed Giuseppe Saragat, this faction has pressured the Christian Democrats toward a new plan of land redistribution by progressive stages. Some 8,760 landholders would be affected. The state would buy up to 50% of the big holdings for resale, on easy terms, to small peasants. In the face of latifondiari resistance, the program will be hard to put over...
...young officer grinned and relented. On a map which showed the houses to be demolished he drew a small circle around the Hawkings place; the little bit of Britain stubbornly holding out against China's civil war was safe again, for the moment...
There were hopeful signs. Television seemed to have stirred a new appetite for small variety acts. For two years RKO had put on a sort of vaudeville once a week in 18 of its New York houses; in recent months, the one-night stands had caught on heavily with moviegoers...
Next season it was Armed. So small as a two-year-old that he was gelded "to make him grow some," Armed didn't see much of the race track until he was four. Then he began to take his bows. Still racing, Armed has won more money ($782,175) than any other gelding ever...