Word: violet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Violet. Tito and his paladins have chalked up some notable achievements in the physical reconstruction of Yugoslavia. In many villages, men still wear sackcloth trousers, and women cannot leave their houses for lack of clothes. But things are a lot better in Yugoslavia than in other war-torn countries (UNRRA aid to Yugoslavia has amounted to over 327 million dollars since April 1945). Tito has managed to keep most people ignorant of the fact that UNRRA supplies are free. In Belgrade recently, Yugoslavs in G.I. shirts and British army boots demonstrated in trucks, shouting: "Give us arms. We want...
Tito is our white violet...
Married. Christopher G. La Farge, 48, gangling poet-novelist (Hoxsie Sells His Acres, The Sudden Guest), grandson of Artist John, son of Architect C. Grant, brother of Author Oliver; and Violet Amory Loomis, 28; both for the second time; in Marion, Mass...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...drab PBY with red star markings landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport. Out squirmed a crowd of uniformed Russians and a stoop-shouldered Chinese peering myopically through violet-tinted horn rims. Henry Pu-yi, the perennial puppet, had been fished out of history's dustbin to testify at the trial of the Jap war criminals...