Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There he grooms a husky youth of the blond, Aryan type for the championship. But the slick U.S. gamblers have crossed the ocean, and they put female temptation in the way of the Blond Aryan. Some shots of late nights, cigarettes, etc. make it plain that the Blond Aryan is out of training. In the final fight he appears a pushover, but the hero rushes to the ringside and inspires his protégé to get in there and win-which he does...
...Sweden but they had never felt safe. "There is many a Russian spy there in Sweden," explained 28-year-old Grace Kupper. who had escaped her native Estonia in a fishing boat five years ago. Soon afterward her parents were taken to Siberia. Now Grace was on her way...
...scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before the five...
When India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru needs to relax, he stands on his head. This is not the exotic mysticism of the fabulous East but a practical way to drive off fatigue and make up for lack of sleep. Last week, as Nehru left New Delhi for Washington on one of the century's most important visits of state, his secretary discussed head-standing with U.S. newsmen: "Perhaps the Prime Minister will demonstrate this for your President Truman...
This week the U.S. seemed inclined to go a long way toward the support of nationalism in Southeast Asia-provided it was not of the Red variety. But the U.S. was dubious of Nehru's Third Force position, his pan-Asiatic leanings, his inclination to see the U.S. and Russia as equally bad imperialist powers. In Washington's view, the problem was to persuade Jawaharlal Nehru that there was only one aggressive power design in the world-the Communist-and everybody else was in the same non-Communist boat...