Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Famine gripped large areas of India (TIME, Oct. 18). Three days after his inauguration, Field Marshal Lord Wavell announced that he would visit hunger-plagued Calcutta, where whole families were dying on the streets. The Bengal Government was one of several provincial Governments which had dallied at commandeering rice crops and stocks, and distributing them to the hungry. Lord Wavell has the power to do so for all of India, and the Central Government has already threatened to override dilatory provincial authorities if necessary. But, even with the utmost vigor on his part, a solution will be difficult...
...abdomen was 41 inches." By using narcotics and suggestion, the doctors reduced his abdomen to 30 inches. "The reduction was maintained at this level for one hour . . . and there after slowly returned to the former level." Next day suggestion without narcotics brought his abdomen down again. After a visit to his wife the soldier ceased being 'pregnant...
...granting of Azores facilities to the Allies; revealed that a staggering total of 855 U.S. planes, using 1,000,000 gallons of high octane gasoline, had participated in the blasting of Bremen and Vegesack; announced that Good Neighbor Venezuela's President, General Isaias Medina Angarita, would visit the U.S. before year's end; and finally took to task the five vocal globe-touring Senators whose criticism of the Administration and the British has caused international reverberations...
...hoarse, warning bellow tore through the fog of postwar shipping plans last week, set Britons tooting nervously. Back in Washington from a three-week visit to London, U.S. Maritime Commission's Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery announced that he had told the British the U.S. "had become a maritime nation and intended to remain one; that we would do it by cooperation if they wanted to but, if they 'didn't want to, we were going to do it anyway. . . . But ... it is much better to do it in cooperation . . . than to start a wrangle...
Field Marshal Smuts was apparently prepared to be away from home for several weeks. The Oubass ("Old Chief") brought some welcome gifts: a case of South Africa's finest export brandy for Friend Winston, another for Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he may visit. He left three cases in North Africa for Generals Eisenhower, Clark, and Teetotaler Montgomery...