Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That did it. The two-hour trial was over; Andrew God got off scot-free, and not even Bilko's Colonel Hall should have been surprised. "The whole thing may seem ridiculous to someone outside the Army," suggested a press officer superfluously last week, as he tried to explain the strange turns of the Army's crunching, newfangled wheels of justice. How ridiculous, indeed, only God knew...
...also freely smashed. South Africa refuses the vote to the 80% of its citizens who are colored. Commonwealth nations have jailed members of their own Parliaments, suppressed newspapers, and in one case (Pakistan) abolished Parliament, deported the President, and imposed military rule. Said a British professor: "About the only thing we can't stand is being beaten by one of them at cricket...
Burden of Ike's letter was a solemn warning that unless the Geneva conference made some progress toward ending the seven-month-old Berlin crisis, the U.S. would not agree to an East-West summit conference. In essence, Ike told Khrushchev the same thing that he told a White House press conference two days later: "I see no use whatsoever in trying to have a harvest when there is no planting and no tilling...
...soon they were taking long rides in Hitler's Mercedes. Hitler called her "Mimi," and at his request she called him "Wolf." The only thing that troubled Mimi was that Wolf would never put down his riding crop. Then one golden day they got out of the car and romped in the meadows like children. Leading Mimi to a tall pine, Hitler said: "Just stand there as you are. You're my forest sprite . . . Later you will understand." It was their first stormy kiss. "I was so happy I wished I could die," says Maria...
...with a prophecy that some day Chicago's great packing industry would wither away. Last week economics was doing what reformers had failed to accomplish. Armour & Co. announced that it will end its packing operations at Chicago this summer; a month ago Swift decided to do the same thing. The other Big Three packer, Wilson, shut down in 1955. With the major packers gone, Chicago will become just another regional livestock market, with small packers slaughtering for the Chicago area...