Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supporters; but that was not necessarily a cause for worry. In its first days, the new German legislature had behaved no more irresponsibly than any of the Continent's traditionally raucous parliaments; the Germans might get to learn the old parliamentary lesson of how to fight and still get the work done...
Back home, meanwhile, enterprising traders made the most of the incident -and furnished economically backward Yemen a perfect illustration of the law of supply & demand. While the shooting was still going on, tireless scavengers on both sides of the embattled border had diligently collected the bullets from the bullet-riddled countryside; on the local market, the price of lead was down...
...remained to be done before official U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese "indigenous population" reflected democratic ideals. G.I.s are still not allowed to entertain Japanese friends in U.S. billets. Osaka's big new hotel, which houses U.S. officers and civilians, has a special side entrance for Japanese. Washrooms in Tokyo office buildings taken over by the Occupation forces are still marked: Officers, Enlisted Men, Japanese...
...called from the Suiyuan back country to defend North China. Last February, outnumbered and outmaneuvered, Fu surrendered Peiping and his own allegiance to the Communists. Last week his new masters sent him back to Suiyuan to win over a former subordinate, Nationalist Governor Tung Chi-wu, still holding out in Paotow...
...Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried last year's pennant beneath a cardboard tombstone back of the center-field fence...