Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...being stalled because the U.S. State Department still could not make up its mind to cooperate with Chiang Kaishek; Costa Rica whose constitution forbids it to have an army and the six of the 59 U.N. members (Yugoslavia and the five Soviet-bloc nations) who did not give some form of backing to the U.N. action in Korea...
...could not believe for long. The danger signs were all there-"the slowness to walk, the slowness to talk, and then, when the child could walk, the incessant restlessness which took the form of constantly running hither and thither...
...True to form, the Canadian Communists stepped up the beat on their peace drums. Stopping off to speak in Saskatoon on his way to the Calgary Stampede, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was angered by Communist pamphlets. In hot, high temper he cried: "We can't in this world expect rights to be respected merely because they are rights. We have to have strength to enforce respect. You don't get peace by talking about...
...some 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptians found out that a stick with a piece of string on it makes a good fishing device, anglers have-been passionately perfecting their sport. Like latter-day bullfighters who prefer cape work to killing, many place more emphasis on form and finesse in handling tackle than on catching fish. When a sportsman goes this far, Fishing warns its readers, "he becomes a 'tackleist' instead of an angler . . . and tackle manipulation overshadows the true goal of using fishing equipment," i.e., fish in the creel or on a stringer...
...such gory classics a century ago knew exactly how well-bred young heroines felt in the presence of general mayhem-so long as it was perpetrated by the hero. The reader felt the same way himself and he loved it. He loved it so much that a new literary form, the dime novel, was created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history of that house and its publications is the year's choicest...