Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malenkov recalled that World War I had brought the Bolshevik revolution, World War II the Soviet sweep-up of Central Europe and China. After such massive gains did the Politburo fear another war? "A third world war . . ." said Malenkov, "will be the grave . . . for the whole of world capitalism."
"We have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a...
At teeming, primitive Kashgar the party was held up for three weeks, haggling for a caravan to take them into India. On from Kashgar, the route led 500 miles to Kargalik, through the walled, rug-making, Moslem town of Yarkand. Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for...
Some 20 days later, Paxton's party reached the first settlement in Ladakh Province, on the Indian side of the Himalayas. But the worst day was still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45°...
A few hours before dawn, a bleary-eyed night porter at The Hague's stuffy Hotel des Indes (named for The Netherlands' once vast and profitable colonies) opened the heavy oaken door for a weary guest, who went promptly to his room, and to sleep. He was slim...