Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the U.S. seemed inclined to go a long way toward the support of nationalism in Southeast Asia-provided it was not of the Red variety. But the U.S. was dubious of Nehru's Third Force position, his pan-Asiatic leanings, his inclination to see the U.S. and Russia as equally bad imperialist powers. In Washington's view, the problem was to persuade Jawaharlal Nehru that there was only one aggressive power design in the world-the Communist-and everybody else was in the same non-Communist boat...
There is a growing army of futile door-to-door peddlers. Every day in apartment houses, Sfeuerbeamten (tax officials) stick tags on pianos, couches, chairs, attaching them for unpaid taxes. A third of the tenants are behind on rent...
...tourists expected by plane and ship, Schmiedigen was packing in all the Haitian color he could get. Staff artists sculptured likenesses of Haitian beauties, chipped out brilliantly colored linoleum murals recording Haitian history from Toussaint 1'Ouverture to President Dumarsais Estimé. A good third of the grounds was marked as the special Haitian sector. Here earringed women would sell mahogany and wicker, while in a small nearby stadium other Haitians would drum, dance and stage cockfights...
...third period Michigan finally discovered a seeming Army weakness-at the guards-and began to roll, scoring one touchdown and threatening another. Then a thin, 155-lb. safety-man, Cadet Tom Brown, played taps for Michigan by intercepting a pass in the end zone in the last six minutes of play. Final score: Army 21, Michigan 7. When Army's team came home to the grey-walled Point, the Cadet corps put on a welcome so thunderous that it almost drowned out an eleven-gun howitzer salute...
...example of poor planning the FORUM picked New York City. The big town has 900 school buildings and a third of them are more than 50 years old. In this antiquated group 280 buildings are not fire-safe, and 250 have inadequate plumbing. In many neighborhoods now heavily populated by new housing projects there are no schools at all. But some schools are now much too big; their neighborhoods have shrunk as population shifted...