Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A far more important source of private income comes from refurbishing such shoddily mass-produced essentials as clothes, shoes and furniture. One of the wealthiest men in Moscow is an expert cobbler who specializes in fixing boots botched in the cooperative repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford...
As for "payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident...
A Queen must do her job without a murmur, and Britain's Elizabeth did it stoutly when South Africa's new Governor General, Charles R. Swart, came to pay his first call. After the usual formal audience, she gave a lunch in Swart's honor at Buckingham...
But the British press was under no such restraint. Said the Daily Mirror: "Mr. Swart is the man who: FLOURISHED a whip to show how he himself would deal with restless Africans. DESCRIBED a wedding photograph of a white girl and an African as disgusting. SAID "when we defend White...
THE MAN WHO HATES BRITAIN BECOMES GOVERNOR GENERAL, headlined the Daily Mail, and the Daily Herald printed a front-page editorial protest that the Queen should have to receive "the organizer of South Africa's color bar Police State . . . the man 8,000,000 Africans fear . . . who has preached...