Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western observers, who had been closely watching the evolution of the Moscow-Peking Axis (TIME, Dec. 19)-and who had spent a lot of time wondering whether or not Mao might turn Tito and break with Moscow-could only speculate about the consequences of the Moscow meeting. All the West knew with certainty last week was that the two most successful living Communists, masters of almost a quarter of the earth's land and more than a quarter of its people, had met, and that both were sworn enemies of the West. That was quite enough to know...
...disaffected Nationalist soldiers, whose unruly behavior had outraged Formosans in the past, have been disarmed and put to work preparing defenses on the shallow, sandy beaches that face the mainland; others have been sent to Sun's U.S.-style training camps in the south. The Formosans, who spent 50 years before World War II under Japanese rule, are getting used to the Chinese soldiery. "A country must have soldiers to have peace," said one farmer. "The ones in our village seldom bother us any more...
...years, Soekarno (like many other Indonesians he has no surname) had been president of the rebel Indonesian republic which had waged war against the Dutch, and which now formed the nucleus of the new federation. A Dutch-trained engineer, and an Asia-trained nationalist, he had spent 25 of his 49 years fighting for Indonesia's independence. The Japanese made him Indonesia's puppet ruler, and he collaborated with them; later he explained that he did it to teach his countrymen how to fight the white...
...having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...
...husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them. It was all we could do to hold them in line...