Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Meantime, as the Huks gathered in the mountains to prepare for further raids- as soon as they could stop laughing over Magsaysay's silly maunderings-plain Filipinos were wondering about their citizens' army. "How can you form a citizens' army," asked one Manilan, "if you cannot tell who is the loyal citizen and who is the dissident...
...correspondents in Korea "drink too much [and] for the most part are incapable of a serious thought even when sober. These likable but stupid Americans send their articles to the newspapers which pay them. Their opinions on the Korean situation will form the opinions of millions. It is disgusting...
...fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three or four days-the only time I've ever talked...
...opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...
...Gossard soon ran into one ideal figure that he hadn't bargained for: the boyish form of the '20s, when many a flapper discarded her corsets entirely, and some even wore tight bindings to flatten out their bosoms. Some corsetiers folded under this frontal assault. Not only did the Gossard company survive (Founder Henry retired in 1923) by turning out the flimsiest excuses for girdles, but it even bought out six competitors to form Associated Apparel Industries, Inc., then the biggest outfit in the business...