Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and a wild laugh, was a bad man to mess around with. He kept a collection of pistols in the two rooms he occupied in a run-down corner house and he was always firing them off or leaning out the windows and pointing them at people...
When a 17-year-old youth named Lawrence Mack knocked on his door one night last week and tried to collect for some cleaning work, Craig ran true to form. He yanked out a pistol. As the youth began to sprint down the street, Craig took a shot...
...more than a billion dollars worth of ECAid, which had kept the British going so far. It was also natural that the press of a capitalist, free-enterprising democracy should blame Britain's Socialist government and its works (e.g., nationalization of coal and railroads, the billion-dollar-a-year health plan) for a lot of Britain's trouble. U.S. press comment ranged from the thoughtful view that Britain's Socialist regime had merely aggravated a British economic weakness of long standing, to sharp criticism and invective ("The old British' backbone is turning to putty...Here...
...Soviet Citizeness Strelkach, who was thrown into a Belgrade prison in March of this year, was summoned every night for questioning for 22 successive days...Six times she was thrown into a cell with only enough room to stand...
...united Europe cannot live without the help and strength of Germany," he said. The French and others had suggested that the Assembly defer action on Germany until next year. But, growled Churchill, "that year is too precious to lose. If lost, it might be lost forever. It might not be a year-but the year...