Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fail to follow Mr. Acheson's line of argument that it was expedient, at Yalta, to give Russia a legal claim to a finger so as to prevent her from taking a hand. How was it possible for Roosevelt and Churchill to furnish Stalin with a "legal claim" to territories over which neither America nor Britain had any jurisdiction whatsoever...
Sickeningly similar stories are told by the hundreds of missionaries, businessmen and disenchanted Chinese who stream by thousands into Hong Kong. With Job-like patience, Neville and his assistants interview refugees by the hour, are able to follow much more than the march of the Red purge. They can watch trends such as the growing number of Russian "technicians" in China, the booming tax rate, the rocketing level of unemployment in specific industries. One student of transportation in Hong Kong was able to build up a timetable for trains throughout China...
...make war against Philip like a barbarian when he wrestles ... If you hear that Philip has attacked in the Chersonese, you send help there; if he is at Thermopylae, you run there; and if he turns aside you follow him, to right or left, as if you were acting on his orders. Never a fixed plan, never any precautions; you wait for bad news before...
...Matthew Lassetter of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, had traveled all the way to Tokyo to see her husband, only to have him whisked away to Korea after a brief five-day leave. One day, in the company of friends in the Marunouchi Hotel, she wished aloud that she might follow him. A sympathetic young R.A.F. pilot sidled up to her. "Lady," he murmured, "I'll get you to Korea...
...Gaullists, the largest party in the new Assembly, will be able to make the party voice heard more firmly than in the past, may be able to compel the Third Force to follow some of its policies. Still a possibility: De Gaulle may be able to split some of the Third Force groups away from the center, form a coalition government with them. If that happens, the Reds are sure to make trouble. The Communists suffered a sharp loss in Assembly seats, suffered losses (less severe) in popular vote as compared with 1946. But they are still France...