Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SALE: One slightly used airline, one well-equipped airfield. Present owners going out of business...
Last week Tito pumped up some counterpressure by having the Yugoslav army stage the greatest maneuvers it had ever held. Tanks, with such slogans as "We Are Ready to Defend Our Country!" and "Tito Is Ours," rolled past the well-fed dictator in the Sumadija, a hilly area of Serbia. Belgrade papers printed an officially inspired opinion that the army had shown "exceptional readiness...
...said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third...
...French are doing well in both respects. Last year, the Communists controlled virtually the entire country except the major cities. Since then they have lost the key rural areas, including the Red River delta and Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost...
...test came on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," a well-tried. In last it is being tried again in New York this week. But you are lucky to be in Cambridge. The performance here is no chuke job. The costumes and get are extravagantly eighteenth century, and appearing prominently in gold braid and squashed top-hat is the late W. C. Fields via Jerry Kilty as Sir Tobey Belch. In this Kilty has resisted the case of playing another Falstaff, which he does well, and instead successfully innovates a double impersonation...