Word: wa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Universiti ov Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Then Glasgow's John Rankin closed that part of the discussion, said: "In Scawtland, we prrronounce it whuskey...
Stamped Out. In Kodara Village, Japan, Local Postmaster Seiichi Higashiza-wa, 33, short of government funds and faced with a visit by inspectors, burned down the post office...
...admit I asked Gordon plaintively if there could be any compromise. I'd have loved a fireplace! Well, I have a magnificent office in plain taste." A $100,000 mock-up section was thrown up by Turner Construction Co., and everything, from Linotile to venetian-blind drawstrings, wa tried on it. To reduce heat, a new green-tinted glass was used. To break up space, new movable paneling was developed. To keep maintenance cost low, dark grey Quincy granite (12,000 sq. ft.) was used around the base, Vermont white marble (6,000 sq. ft.) to sheathe exterior columns...
Ostensibly Chou was in Rangoon to ratify the settlement of the Sino-Burmese border dispute, which he and former Burmese Premier U Nu worked out recently. This guaranteed that China would relinquish her claims to the Wa States in return for Burma's surrender of three Kachin villages annexed by Burma in the days of British rule. The Kachin villagers are ardently opposed to this plan...
...Franz Xavier Philipp, Vienna correspondent for East Germany's Communist news agency ADN, and a former longtime editor of the Soviet-sponsored Berlin daily Tägliche Rundschau. Philipp also wa fired for refusal to slant stories of th Hungarian fighting, denied ADN's charge that he was working for the U.S. Secret Service...