Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of the National Salvation Army's activities begins in spring 1950, when he salvaged some 2,000 stragglers from the wreck of the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group and withdrew his demoralized troops to the Shan mountains on the Burma side of the border. In May 1951 Li attacked Red Yunnan with several thousand recruits gleaned from the borderlands, occupied eight hsien (Chinese counties), and appealed for volunteers. "Every able-bodied man in the district" stepped forward, he says; the National Salvation Army increased...
...meshing French steel with German coal supplies, the Flick-De Wendel deal seems, at first blush, to hasten the pooling of Western Europe's heavy industry, which is the object of the Schuman Plan. Already, however, there are fears that it may create an international version of the old Flick cartel that the Allies had undone and Schuman Plan authority has promised not to reestablish...
When the U.S. Treasury Department, seeking a stimulant for a Savings Bond drive, suggested a Moscow, U.S.A. version of May Day, the citizens were skeptical. But the university, which had just lost a college blood-donor contest to California Polytechnic, thought May Day would be a good occasion for a blood-donor campaign, too-and the theme became "bonds and blood." A parody of a bristling, Soviet-style May Day was ruled out in favor of a purely American holiday. "We wanted to show what Moscow, U.S.A. has," explained Chamber of Commerce President Del MacPherson. "It might be corny," added...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman spark-plugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-n-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...
...Conditions seem favorable for a séance this evening," said Herbert Jarrow. And before long, he was in the middle of it; he was chanting a garbled version of the witches' incantations from Macbeth. Tapping Herbert's clasped hands, his daughter Grace whispered: "Mother is here. She has emerged from the Gloom." Mother Jarrow toddled in from the kitchen of their English cottage. "I am here, Herbert," she said, "I'm always near you, Herbert." :'But in a different world," insisted Herbert, "you died and I went...