Word: marvelously
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...army has the immediate advantage of numbers. In the year since the conquest of China, Mao has built up his forces steadily. They are 2,500,000 strong, divided into four huge field armies. Their rigidly enforced discipline is the marvel of China. They are intensively trained by vigilant officers, intensively indoctrinated by even more vigilant political commissars. The best is Lin Piao's army; it overran Manchuria and North China, now leads the assault in Korea...
...impressive name: American-Canadian Uranium Co., Ltd. Even more impressive were the company's top officials. The president was white-haired, handsome Paul V. McNutt who, as War Manpower Commissioner and High Commissioner to the Philippines, was a king in the New Deal deck. Vice President was Josiah Marvel Jr., onetime Ambassador to Denmark and recently appointed by President Truman to the International Claims Commission. McNutt, Marvel & Co. hoped to sell 500,000 shares of American-Canadian stock at $3.50 apiece (par value...
...Zallinger conducting; the Haydn Society, 8 sides LP). The 13th of his 22 theater works, Idomeneo was Mozart's favorite-if no one else's; it has only had one U.S. production, at the Berkshire Music Center (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947). Although there is much to marvel at, most listeners will find Idomeneo loaded with tiresome recitative and lacking in the sparkle of Don Giovanni or The Marriage of Figaro. Performance and recording: good...
Last week Poolad Gurd was the marvel of Teheran, where a kindly member of Iran's royal family had brought him for an operation to cure his twisted spine. "If the operation is successful," said Poolad's doctor, "he may again be the strongest man in the world." Poolad himself was confident. While awaiting the knife, he lay across three hospital beds placed side by side, flirting with a petite nurse and considering an offer from a U.S. circus...
Considering that Frankie came from the U.S., the quality of this smile was enough to make a critic marvel. Marveled Hobson...