Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chanis then appointed a board of four men, headed by the Minister of Government and Justice, and sent them to police headquarters to take command. While they were on the way the President telephoned Lieut. Colonel Bolivar Vallarino, Remón's second-in-command and ordered him to...
The chief, holding all the cards, refused. Tired and shaken, Chanis capitulated, then went to bed. He had been in office almost four months (as successor to the late President Diaz Arosemena) and seemed a bit relieved at the prospect of returning to his medical practice. The victors rounded up...
Even in the green-carpeted Commons chamber there was no air of anticipation. Although the diplomatic corps had been told that Parliament would get its first review of Canadian foreign policy since last summer's general election, only four foreign diplomats showed up.
Facts to Face. Western governments, Pearson warned, may soon have to do business with the Communist regime in China. "We will in due course and in consultation with other friendly governments have to recognize the facts." He thought that the military occupation of Japan should be ended as quickly as...
Tony Lavelli, Yale's All-America 1948, 49 basketball star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract...