Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week to labor on a wary truce (see below), the Communist press had a peace message of its own. World War II, the Communists declared, had been started not by the Nazis, but "by the infamous instigation of the German people by the golden bedbugs of Wall Street." The accusations that whirled back & forth between the victors who had only recently tried Germans as war criminals induced a German humorist to crack: "It is almost enough to make one feel insecure in one's guilt complex...
When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...
...interventionist colleagues, though he himself was in favor of U.S. entry into World War I. The New York Times congratulated the university on its "deliverance" from such a radical. He was forever popping up-at congressional hearings, protest meetings, or with a new book-to attack Hearst, or Wall Street, the "intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism," or the internationalists and their "giddy minds." No one ever quite knew what he would say next. "Have you read Charles Beard's last book?" someone once asked Nicholas Murray Butler. Huffed Columbia's president: "I hope...
...plastics products which also won prizes in the competition, ranged from hardware (garden hose) and building materials (wall tiles, translucent plastic-block walls, vinyl floors, fluorescent light fixtures) to gadgets (harmonicas, toy blocks, perfume atomizers) and artificial hands, complete with hair...
...latest novel, set in wartime Wall Street, Miss Stead shows all her old talents: her sure knowledge of financial intrigue, her talent for making distasteful characters come distastefully alive, and her needling, admirably unsentimental prose. Yet A Little Tea, a Little Chat is no pleasure to read...