Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sober second thought, many Quebeckers thought that Duplessis had won too much power. Until the next election there would be only one check on him. The Legislative Council (upper house), whose 24 members are appointed for life, has 17 Liberals...
Died. Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, 63, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; of a heart ailment; in Upper Marlboro, Md. (see PRESS...
...Psychologically, the British stiff upper lip is as imperturbable as ever; mathematically, their plans don't yet add up. But their problem is less a mathematical equation than it is a human one. Sir Stafford Cripps, who I had always supposed was an archangel of austerity, turned out to be a warm, genial, thoroughly pleasant personality, with plenty of humor - and goodness knows, Britain's terrific problems will have to be solved in human terms, not just mathematical ones...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
...British complied. Rocket-firing Spitfires strafed guerrilla encampments in the north. Plans were made to drop incendiaries on ricefields in upper Pahang state to deprive the rebels of food. Royal Navy ships patrolled the coasts to intercept gunrunning junks from Siam and South China. More than 20,000 Malay and Gurkha troops, together with regular British units, prepared a ground sweep of the peninsula...