Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women Who Hate & Follow. She did not attain her power as Lupescu did, nor in the way the suffragettes dreamed of in Ana's youth. She came up through 30 fighting years in the Communist Party, to which she contributed great courage and a good, if not brilliant mind. Her chief offering, however, was a blind loyalty which stood every test, including the party's purge of her husband...
...fixed quota of their crops even if the harvest is bad and they have not enough left for themselves; recently, peasants in the Banat burned their crops in protest against the system. A recent visitor described Bucharest as a "city with the air of a pawnshop." The only way the Rumanian middle class can keep alive is by slowly selling its possessions. The few men who still run their businesses actually hope for nationalization. New laws covering "economic sabotage" may land a businessman in jail for carrying out any simple deal. As one Rumanian businessman put it: "We walk around...
...fill his pockets. It's only after a Rumanian official has made enough money through graft to buy a house, educate his children, and keep a mistress or two, that he feels he can afford to be honest. The Reds are starting from scratch, and have a long way...
...governing bodies and committees. When it was all over, burly Will Lawther, National Union of Mineworkers' anti-Communist president and newly elected head of the T.U.C., sprawled triumphantly over a half pint of beer. "Yer'd have thoert they woor blooody Nazzies," said Will Lawther, "th' way they've been schemin' and skirmishin'-but we've got th' blighters proper licked...
...York Herald Tribune suggested that the best way to pronounce Queuille was as a Southern colonel would say the last two syllables of "you cur, you" (yuh cuh yuh). The Tribune found, however, that some Americans called him Kelly...