Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Missouri School of Journalism, young Powell worked for the Office of War Information in China during World War II. In 1945, as editorial regent for his ailing father, Bill soon recaptured the Review's old readers among the U.S., British and English-speaking Chinese communities, who were glad to see the weekly revived. But young Powell moved sharply left from his father's position as an independent critic of both the Nationalists and the Communists. After Red troops finally took Shanghai in 1949, the Review hailed the city's "liberation," lavishly praised "the new democracy," and began...
...priest managed to grant absolutions and perform clandestine Mass each day for Roman Catholic prisoners. Lilje and other Protestant pastors wrote meditations and commentaries to be passed around. Among the most heroic were the Jehovah's Wit nesses. Owing to their "absolute love of truth, the Gestapo were glad to use these men in various prisons as informers, for in their love of truth they always went so far that they disregarded all ties of comradeship ... In spite of this, we owe them that respect which we would give to the fanatics at the period of the Reformation. Like...
...awfully glad to meet...
This week, to show its listeners what they were missing, and how glad they should be, WNEW was punctuating its station breaks with burlesque versions of soap operas and crime thrillers. Sample: "And now . . .Chapter 2025 of Barbara Babbitt, Girl Ranger. Yesterday, you'll recall, we left Barbara pleading with the district attorney for the life of Cuddles, her Oriental leopard. Meanwhile,unknown to either Barbara or Cuddles, Wambly Townsend, the handsome young accountant, is at this very moment flying to the state capital to ask. . . for a reprieve. Will Wambly Townsend succeed in his desperate race against time...
...offered as its main feature a coal-steel pool without the sweeping powers which Schuman had called for. It held out some strictly limited hope that a practical compromise between the British and the continental powers might yet be reached. Nervously the British declared that they would be glad to submit the Plowden Plan at the Paris conference-if any one asked them to. Reported a London correspondent: "The British observers in Paris are under instructions which in effect say, 'Speak only when spoken...