Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first report of such letters came from Kentucky three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association...
...cafe for three hours. That evening she pressed his baggy pants, darned his socks and turned the collar on his shirt. A few months later they were married. "I'll never forget that first day in the cafe," she said last week. "I was scared to death that whoever the gentleman was, he would be angry because I had lied. Fortunately, Werner had lied...
Because China needs industrial developing, Mao is ready to collaborate with small and medium capitalists. But bourgeois "diehards" are out. ("Goodness, do we not know what they would do with the destiny of our nation? . . .") Land must be "equalized," and capital "controlled." Warns Mao: "Whoever dares to turn in the opposite direction will . . . get his head broken against the wall. . . The sun of the new China appears on the horizon, we clap our hands and hail it. Raise your fists, new China will be ours...
...What's biting these textbook writers, then? Communism. Whoever is touched with Communism loses his sense of truth as we know...
...causes and effects of Truman's victory, and they invited Associate Professor Louis Hartz to join the discussion. Unfortunately Hartz did not join the discussion very much, chiefly because he was more polite than most of the undergraduates present. He therefore did not stick his two bits in while whoever was speaking took a second off to inhale after a comma, which is what everybody else did whenever Hartz was speaking...