Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garcia created a National Security Council that expressed support for the U.S. position on Formosa; but the President added that the Philippine Republic itself would go to war only "if the U.S. bases in the Philippines are attacked." Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suggested that the U.N. take up the dispute-thereby playing into the hands of Peking, which has been fighting for years for acceptance into...
...East operations of U.S. forces based in Japan. Snapped India's Nehru: "There is no doubt these islands will have to go to China, and this fact should be recognized and acted upon peacefully." The British government, moved by its fisheries "war" with Iceland (see below) to take a stern stand against Peking's new claim to a twelve-mile limit, publicly announced that it "fully shared" U.S. concern over events in the Formosa Strait. But in private, British Foreign Office spokesmen made no bones of their lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of active U.S. participation...
...nigger hater all right. I happen to love this country of mine . . . Before the war we were supreme beings-30,000 of us kept one-third of the earth's surface in order. We've got to keep the blacks down or they'll take over like Hitler did."* And a Times reporter noted that the hoodlums came from all over London, even from areas where there were no Negroes, "because these stunted, pallid thugs like the chance of violence without danger...
...week's shopping money), personally wheel their market carts in air-conditioned luxury past shelves labeled in English "roast chicken" (which presumably sounds more exotic than polio arrosto). Tommy-gun-toting guards accompany the cashiers to the company's central office with the day's take; the supermarkets' loss from theft is less than...
Better than Brynner. For the ordinary Italian family the supermarket still has drawbacks. Unlike the small shops, the supermarkets do not give credit or make home deliveries. Most Italian housewives cannot afford imported foods, cannot take home much food on a motor scooter, and do not have a refrigerator to store the food at home. Nonetheless, shopkeepers located near supermarkets complain that their business is down a third. Even Communist housewives have ignored the Red complaint that "Rockefeller is strangling the food merchants...