Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of picking his way through Manila's rubble in the heavy heat of Luzon, Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, the Senate's expert on U.S. territories, abruptly emplaned for home. He had come with greying, ailing President Sergio Osmeña, back on his native soil after a two-month sojourn in the U.S. He had conferred with General Douglas MacArthur; he had pledged "fair and generous" treatment to the near-bankrupt Philippines during their transition period toward independence (to be granted by July...
These 15 million humans don't have to be screened, classified, inspected, catalogued, rehabilitated and strangled by red tape. They want to get back to their folks and their own soil after years of slavery. None are more than a few days rail or truck journey from home...
...schools closed at noon. Most of the stores locked their doors. At 1 p.m. three big transport planes plumped down at the airport and a thin, tired-looking man stepped out on Georgia soil. Long before, Atlanta's excited citizens were packed along the downtown streets...
...belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...
...soil for epidemics is ready for planting-far more refugees than in 1918, people without homes, people without food or soap. But fortunately, reports General Draper, most stay-at-home western Europeans have come through the war in fairly good condition. The French death rate actually dropped during German occupation (to 16.9 per 1,000 in 1943 compared with a U.S. rate of 10.9) even though individual rations were 500 calories a day less than the average 2,500-a-day requirement...