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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stronghold area, and were beginning to draw the neck strings of the bag in which they hoped to catch him. Said Van Fleet: "We are trying to find a soft spot in the guerrilla lines." The general's unconscious "we" was well-chosen: Coronet was the big test of what the Greeks could do with the help of Harry Truman's Doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Coronet | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Said a sputtering BBC announcer: "It makes me furious-absolutely furious!" At Nottingham, England, in the famed Test Matches (Britain v. Australia), an Australian cricketer was sending down "bumpers" (a beanball type of bowling that bounced up into the batsman's face). Every time he bowled, the audience cut loose with the British equivalent of Brooklynese. Even the tea-sippers in the pavilion joined in the vulgar booing. What was cricket coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD MID-FEBRUARY 1948 TO EARLY JUNE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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