Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Fish them Boston. By now it is probably the third biggest city in the U.S. -more than 2,000,000 people live within its far-flung city limits, more than 4,000,000 in its metropolitan area-and it has gotten pinker, more sprawling, more like a Los Angeles promoter's dream with every advancing mile...
Many Formosans want complete independence for their island-to be gained by revolution or any other means. Others talk of "autonomy under a good Chinese government," neither Nationalist nor Communist. A third group favors a U.S. mandate...
...experience. Though all are bitterly critical of both Nationalists and Communists (said one Formosan recently returned from Red Peiping: "The regimes of Nationalists and Communists are like eggs laid down by snakes of the same family"), they seem more interested in paddling their own canoes than shaping a strong third force that would be the best weapon against the communism they all hate...
Nine years ago, James Street published the first of his series of novels of the Dabneys, Oh, Promised Land. The first book was 816 pages long, the next, Tap Roots, 593 pages, the third, By Valor and Arms, 538 pages. They told the story...
Born. To William Randolph Hearst Jr., 42, balding second of The Chief's five sons, publisher of the New York Journal-American, and third wife Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 29, the Washington Times-Herald's society gossipist ("These Charming People"): their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: William Randolph III. Weight...