Word: whose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choose the Unknown Taxpayer on whose shoulders rests everything that makes a true democracy...
...another federal courtroom, in San Francisco, the U.S. began last week the job of trying to prove that Harry Bridges is a Communist and that he had perjured himself when he denied it. The Government had tried unsuccessfully twice before; this time the Government promised a new witness whose words would "carry a real Sunday punch." If the charge can be proved, the vociferous, needle-nosed boss of the C.I.O. Longshoremen can be sent back to his native Australia. As in the Hiss trial, the jury is eight women and four...
...subsidiaries operated as many as 5,000 machines. In some cases they were equipped with little ladders to help the kiddies plunk in their nickels. The machines were protected from the police through an injunction against seizure. They were protected from rival hoodlums by a private police force, whose efficiency is reflected by this report from the company files...
...engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead. So far in November two other B-29s had gone down, both because of engine trouble. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg grounded all B-29s whose engines had not been overhauled and modernized...
...maneuvering Spitfires were not the only show of strength which Great Britain had staged to impress China's Communists, whose armies had swept up to Hong Kong's borders. Across the harbor from Hong Kong island, on the flinty, weatherworn mountain of South China's Kowloon peninsula (which the British rule under a 99-year lease), men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the King's Own Scottish Borderers were training to the peak of battle efficiency. Said a brisk regimental commander: "We know our enemy, and we are ready...