Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BERNARD K. FRANK Portland...
...finally ended the power of the "CC clique," named for the Brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu. Many U.S. observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency of Chiang's regime. Key figure in the reform drive was Formosa's able governor K. C. Wu, former mayor of Chungking and of Shanghai. Said Wu recently: "I am determined to eradicate corruption [and] to make the island as secure internally as the military men are going to make it from the outside...
...research, will now taste more like the fresh; powdered milk and milk fats will be shipped overseas separately, whipped together just before mealtime to seem more like bottled milk; canned bread and poundcake are guaranteed to hold their shape and taste for two years in any climate. The old "K" ration even has a new name-an "assault food packet"-and will be fortified by a new variety of canned meats, besides old familiars: crackers, chocolate, cigarettes, matches and toilet paper...
...smoothed-down pillow was tuberculosis, typhoid, and other diseases brought to New Zealand by the white man. In the next 25 years, disease reduced the Maoris almost to extinction. In 1881 Dr. Alfred K. Newman, another member of Parliament, wrote: "Taking all things into consideration, the disappearance of the race is scarcely a subject for regret. They are dying out in a quick, easy way, and are being supplanted by a superior race...
...they were of Russian make and therefore no good, Russia having made cigars such a short while. Minister of Trade and Industry Sakari S. Tuomioja replied that they were not the best, but quite good nevertheless. A longish argument on the subject of cigars ensued, into which Premier Urho K. Kekkonen entered, saying, "Tuomioja defends his opinions faithfully." Said Stalin, eyes twinkling, "Like all Finns...