Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign rule (except for the Japanese occupation during World War II). The Siamese feel no smoldering resentment against any former colonial masters, are also happy because their country is comparatively rich and not overcrowded. Yet all of its cheerfulness cannot shield Siam from the crosswinds of Communist insurrection which blow across the border from Burma, Indo-China and Malaya...
Behind the scenes, Dr. Lull and his aides lobbied to swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
Dimitrios played a double game. He maintained a secret organosis of villagers who acted as informers for the Communist guerrillas and laid mines to blow up government transport. For three years, day & night, peasant women had sneaked through fields, hiding mines beneath their wide woolen petticoats, and dreamy-eyed shepherds had leaned on their crooks, watching for government convoys...
Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, potent Roman Catholic orator who has struck many a telling blow in the spiritual battle of East & West, showed little respect for his chief ideological foe. "Stalin," said Sheen, "is possibly the most stupid politician in the history of the world...
While the Manhattan hearings held the spotlight, the Administration itself struck an oblique blow for a fourth round of wage raises. Under the Walsh-Healey Act it has the power to set minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...