Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...they were not consulted about the desirability of making the sacrifice. Many Yugoslavs resent it. Although some new factories, schools and offices have been built, what the average worker really sees ahead is a life of slavery for which he is not even beginning to receive compensation in the form of consumer goods...
...vote of confidence to tough, 79-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, the symbol of their independence. When the presidential electors meet on February 15, Paasikivi can count on 171 votes. The Communists made gains in the popular vote, but won only about 22% of the electoral vote. Paasikivi will form a new government on March 1, probably a coalition of all non-Communist parties...
France's own Communists leaped enthusiastically into the ensuing fray, seizing the occasion to sling more mud at Bidault. Accusations, denials and counteraccusations were scattered like shrapnel. After three hours of stormy debate the Assembly voted to form a committee to investigate the whole affair...
...There was so much music in America I was revolted," said Pianist Hepzibah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, on her way back home to Australia after visiting California. "Music is an intruder on every form of life. It's even in grocery stores and beauticians'. And the most repulsive thing about it is that no one is listening...
...counting the reading period assignment. The exam was Friday; this was Wednesday night. Vag shuddered: before his eyes swirled unhappy visions of the tense examination room, stacks of blue-books, the stern-faced proctors; he saw the terse sadistic questions: "Identify . . ." "Discuss and cite examples. . . ." "Elaborate, in essay form . . .", "Write briefly on three of the five. . . .", he felt the panic as the three hours skidded by while he struggled to pump out answers from an empty mind. Vag breathed hard, clutched the book nervously, and wrote "Chapter 10" so hard at the top of his reading notes that he broke...