Word: straits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sockeye salmon were coming home from roaming the Pacific Ocean. Now the silver traffic swarmed in millions into Juan de Fuca Strait and up the broad Fraser River. It was the biggest run in four years...
M.U.D.-Slinging. How do the people like their strait jackets? Few dictators ever know. Salazar found out last fall when he suddenly proclaimed freedom of the press and free elections for a new National Assembly. After a few days' hesitation, opposition groups which had scarcely suspected one another's existence came out of the underground. Two weeks after the proclamation, in a rented schoolroom on Lisbon's Rua do Bemformoso, the first meeting of the Movimento Unidade Democratica (M.U.D.) was held. Much to M.U.D.'s surprise, supporters poured in by the thousands. Every paper except...
...future of Giannini's empire-founded on the passionate belief that banking opportunity lies with the little fellow's money-seemed bright. From the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Mexican line, the West Coast was booming, its fears of postwar slump almost forgotten...
...Groucho) that he and his four brothers (you left out Gummo) are Sam's second cousins. Up until now tht Marx family has declined to release this valuable information, because: 1) Sam is very touchy on the subject and likes people to think he comes from an austere, strait-laced family; and 2) the Marx Brothers don't want it to get around that a second cousin of theirs is concealing atomic bomb secrets in his desk. . . . I think the general public should be correctly informed if another world war is to be averted...
...boss was a little man with a neat white mustache and strait-laced ideals. He hung pictures of another great Texan on every wall at the plant, drummed Davy Crockett's motto ("Be sure you're right, then go ahead") into Son E. M. ("Ted") Dealey...