Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Yes," replied Ewing. "Wigs, spectacles and all. The cost of wigs under your British plan doesn't amount to a hill of beans."
For the first 13 days of its second run in Manhattan's federal court, the perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and...
After picking Brussels as the new organization's permanent site, the congress adopted a manifesto setting forth its policies, and purposes. A committee under the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther drafted a text which managed to please both the T.U.C. and A.F.L. The slogans adopted:
"What is most striking in the new 'Chinese Cominform' program is that it is to be applied over a region in which the Chinese imperial monarchy formerly held a kind of paramount position, and in which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration...
In many places the peasants clashed with police; there were hundreds of arrests and nearly a score dead. Communist agitators were among the land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food...