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Word: spokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring Is Here. McNeil spoke up again. "When I am working hard ... I think it not unreasonable to ask my wife to provide me with a hot meal," said McNeil, "but I have been known to urge my wife to leave the making of the Sunday lunch to me ... I make a very excellent Sunday lunch." U.S. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt threw a sharper spear: "Who does the housework in the Soviet Union? Is it always done by the men, or are all the services performed through some communal arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Ye Prisoners of the Kitchen | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...just the kind of political paradox for which the British have a peculiar fondness and talent. It satisfied everybody, including old Imperialist Winston Churchill, who ringingly spoke of "new harmonies." The only disappointed party was the Communists, who knew that an India out of the Commonwealth's charmed circle might fall to Asia's rising Red tide. Sputtered London's Daily Worker: "Unprincipled agreement . . . British imperialism has always proved adaptable in finding a formula which can suit its aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Grin Without the Cat | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Shanghai's Garrison Commander Chen Ta-ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Last Salvo | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Every night for the past six weeks in the London hit A Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Polterjacket | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

That summer, he began his campaign in a Ford car, holding meetings in tiny villages, at the roadside, under trees. He spoke from the running board, from oxcarts, from piles of stones. A shabbily dressed man, with a simple eloquence and a poet's understanding of people, he got his message across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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