Word: somes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
By early afternoon on election day, only a few people hurried to the polls along the palm-shaded streets of Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths...
Polish papers had not very much to say, except to welcome Poland's new military boss obsequiously. The Red propaganda mill promptly ground out some fetching facts to fit Poland's new made-in-Russia national hero. "We receive the news of his appointment with great emotion, that...
Stalin, who will be 70 next month, is methodically husbanding his strength and Smith sees no reason why he should not continue in power for "a number of years." He talked to Stalin at length four times. "Met face to face, Stalin is not by any means the unattractive personality...
Then came the time when bayonets were superseded by other, blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put...
One of England's most original painters is a baby-faced 39-year-old named Francis Bacon, and one of the most original things about him is that he has destroyed some 700 canvases to date. "The trouble with Francis," a London friend of Bacon's explained last...