Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declare that Russia is the sole hand which stirs the potent brew ? All through our press and in the statements of our leading politicos, I see references to "aggression in Eastern Europe," "the Red menace in Iran" (how that Red bogeyman haunts us still!), and other seemingly terrifying militaristic moves. But what of the presence of British troops in Greece ? . . . What of the massacres freedom-seeking Indonesians by British and Dutch troops...
...proposal that the U.S. give away its present security as sole possessor of the bomb, the objection was that the only gain would be the world's transitory gratitude...
...closefisted policy squeezes every bit of profit out of industry in order that some segment of society may apparently be advantaged; the government being the sole judge of this, we will arrive at an economy with our industries nearly all nationalized without a vote of the people-an economic and social revolution of greater proportions than we now realize-one that American labor will rue as much as others...
...Bronx, ex-Pfc. Peter Boucouvales, paralyzed from the waist down by the bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
Jack Fisher scored an upset over his brother Bill--known to Crimson track and football fans as "Willo"--to win the 35-pound weight throw in the I.C.4-A track meet in New York Saturday. Sole representatives of Jaakko Mikkola's squad, they threw the weight 51 feet, 11 1/2 inches, and 49 feet, 10 inches, respectively...