Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record went Henry's written polemic of 11,000 words, while, with Running Mate Glen Taylor at his side, he read abstracts from it. The Marshall Plan, he said, was a "blueprint" for war, a "colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington and Wall Street intervention in the internal affairs of the participating countries." He had a counter proposal: the U.S. should give $50 billion to the United Nations to be spent for relief over the next ten years...
...Having passed for 45 years as a white man, Wall Street Lawyer T. John McKee went to court to prove that he was the only surviving grandchild of the late Col. John McKee, Negro Civil War veteran and real-estate operator, who died in Philadelphia in 1902 and left an estate now worth...
...Bernal said he was "one of the greatest . . . geniuses of his time." What made Pyke so extraordinary was his consistent belief that a human being could reason his way through any problem. That belief rammed Geoffrey Pyke's bald head into-and sometimes through-one stone wall after another...
...large areas of China the government still held control. Sometimes the Reds caught a lesson, as did raiding General Ting Hsi-shan. When he raided Tsingpu, near Shanghai, he ran into an ambush. His head was pinned to the Tsingpu city wall...
...casual eye, most tapestries look like faded, overelaborate rugs hanging on a wall. But these 200 were different. They were the handsomest show Manhattan had seen in years. Lent by the French Government, and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, they covered an acre of wall space. Before the exhibition closed this week, 142,545 visitors had seen it. On the last day, crowds were still waiting to get in when the gates closed...