Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then some. In the straw balloting he led Wendell Willkie 59-to-41, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 55-to-45 (the same margin he had over Wendell Willkie in 1940). Most startling change in the President's vote-getting power: increased war popularity among upper-income groups...
Half the party will trek far to the north west to the upper reaches of the Rio Tapajóz. The other will work among the tributaries of the Rio Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...
...Sicily. Into northern Italy, above the River Po, other Germans moved from Austria, from Yugoslavia, and possibly from southern Italy, which the Germans patently did not expect to hold. From the area of Udine and Venice they spread west almost to Milan. Nazi troops also concentrated in the upper Adriatic's Istrian peninsula, where the late Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio seized Fiume after World...
...need arms," George tells me in his jerky, nervous way. "We need much more now if we are going to be useful in sabotage." George speaks solemnly of the great number of Cretans who were shot out-of-hand as hostages. "The Germans always pick professors, doctors and lawyers-upper-class groups-as hostages, so they are slowly exterminating what cultural elements remain on the island. Others, many others, are dying by stages of hunger...
...story tells how an upper-class Japanese family is affected by Japan's war on China and the U.S. By the time Cornell-educated Taro Seki (Tom Neal) returns to Japan from the U.S., he has become waywardly democratic. He has forgotten that Japs take off their shoes before entering their homes, and like to take their baths in the company of girls. Taro's father, wealthy Publisher Ryo Seki (J. Carroll Naish), shows him the error of his Western ways by explaining that Japan's eventual domination of the world is all that really counts...