Word: getting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tung is likely to become an Asian Tito. Therefore, argue the advocates of recognition-many of them in the U.S. State Department, which is still trying to figure out a U.S. policy for Asia-the Chinese Communists ought to be officially acknowledged as China's rulers, get some form of U.S. assistance to spur a break with Moscow. Last week London's shrewd Economist analyzed the premises on which this argument is based, found them extremely shaky. The Economist's analysis gave sharp warning that the China Reds represent a clear and present danger to the West...
...Chifley and his men, made a sharp impression on the voters. Menzies hoped New Zealand and Australia had set a trend against Socialism that would reach all the way "home," i.e., to Britain. Said Melbourne's dapper Richard G. Casey, onetime Minister to Washington: "The man who should get the most kick out of this is Winston Churchill...
...lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube's expressive face and thin, agile limbs have helped launch slogans like "You'll get the lump from Tate, but State will give you the hump." A "Memo from Mr. Cube," hitting state controls, went to 5,000,000 voters...
...have to stop asking, is a man an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, or a Jew? We have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
...better purposes. At La Sila, not far from Melissa, the Italian government, with ECA help, is spending 15 billion lire ($24 million) on a project to improve the land, plans to settle 20,000 peasant families there. They will be instructed in crop rotation and other modern agricultural methods, get new tools and fertilizers. The U.S. has earmarked about $240 million for about 100 similar reclamation projects in Italy...