Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...rule. Formosa's Nationalists claim that the armed resisters number well above a million. But this popular force is not yet effectively organized. The U.S. shows no present intention of encouraging or using the anti-Communists of Formosa or the mainland to undermine Mao in his own backyard. This in spite of estimates that, with a little help from outside, the anti-Communist Chinese could pin down half the Chinese Red army...
Alert. In Manhattan, an enterprising advertiser took space in the New York Herald Tribune: BACKYARD BOMB SHELTER PLANS...
Last week Canada's finest private atom bomb shelter was finished. Although it looked like a simple mound of concrete in Mrs. MacDonald's backyard (see cut), the roof was steel-reinforced and 32 inches thick. Inside, the shelter was 8 by 4 by 6 ft., had six-inch walls and floors of waterproof concrete, was equipped with a food storage locker, oxygen tanks, electric lights. The underground entrance had a 30-inch, lead-lined door fitted with a oneway safety valve to equalize the interior air pressure after a bomb blast...
...Scots groans by sitting down to the piano and playing "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon." When he spent one vacation savoring the simple pleasures of lying under a tree, Jane could not help reminding a friend that there was a very large tree in their own backyard-"but it were too easy to repose under that...
...backyard of his host, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche got some valuable pointers on the art of horseshoe pitching (see cut). In Berkeley to deliver a commencement address at the University of California, Bunche was ordered into a pair of sneakers by the admiral. As the backyard game progressed, Nimitz said: "Keep your arm straight at the elbow-less tiring, more accurate." Then, plopping a perfect ringer, the admiral advised his puffing house guest: "Best exercise in the world for sedentary people...