Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfranchised People. China's long history of governmental tyranny and clannish family life is "a handicap" to democratic practice. Neither "the common people" nor "the middle and upper classes" are familiar with "the habits of holding elections. . . . Not one member of a hsien [county] council . . . has been elected to his office by the people of the hsien...
...born 30 years ago in the Cuban colony in Tampa; she, of upper-class Cuban parents in Havana. Raul trouped as a child actor through Central and South America, picked up dance steps as he went along, eventually drifted to Havana where he met Eva at a party. She was a schoolgirl of 15. But Raul wanted her so much for a partner that he married her on the spot. A few months later they made their first big-time appearance at Miami's Roney-Plaza Hotel...
...invaded southern France, which the Germans at the time were still working to make impregnable, or into the upper Adriatic Sea, where contact could have been made with Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, critics of the strategy followed insist, a radically different situation would exist...
...Sakhalin is fabulously rich (timber, gold, oil, coal), tempting to greedy neighbors. In 1905 Japan wrested its southern half away from Russia. In 1918, when Russia was in revolution, Japanese soldiers marched north, held the whole island for seven years. When finally they left the upper half, they took with them a 45-year concession for coal...
...Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, of Roslyn, L.I., Washington, Upper St. Regis Lake, N.Y., and Palm Beach's "Mar-a-Lago" formed a jaunty twosome (see cut, p. 43) at Palm Beach...