Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understood. My patient cared little about esthetics or mastication at that moment. All he wanted was to be able to play his flute. . . . I finally made him a lower denture with clasps. . . . The patient, elated by this success, decided to have the upper remade...
...Radio reaches only about 5% of the Arab public-some 250,000 people, mostly of the urban upper class...
They drew to them "the flotsam, the stragglers living on the fringe of their class . . . the unemployed . . . the declassed of all classes." In all ages, says Heiden, "this has been the way of counterrevolution: an upper layer that has lost its hold in society seeks the people and finds the rabble. The officers were out to find a demagogue, of whom it could be said that he was a worker. . . . They found their leader in the lowest mass of their subordinates. The spirit of history, in its fantastic mockery, could not have drawn an apter figure...
Moscow suggested that Poland might in return take slices of Germany -presumably East Prussia, Upper Silesia and perhaps a sliver of Pomerania-territories to which Poland has dim historic rights and some strategic claim. Ethnologically and morally, Poland's claim to parts of Germany is no better than her claim to the eastern provinces; the single merit of such a gerrymander is that it would strengthen Russia and Poland, weaken Germany. There is much evidence that this idea was discussed at Teheran...
...those who looked beneath the surface of Chilean democracy, there were disturbing signs. Ever since the war began to affect the Western Hemisphere, Chile has suffered increasingly from inflation. Her upper and middle classes are reveling in paper profits. Nightclubs are jammed. Landlords have seen their properties increase five times in paper value...