Word: name
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then the Senators began wandering through Lee's intriguing past: he had been born Ephraim Zinovi Liberman in Harbin, Manchuria (in 1907), had gone to Moscow briefly in 1930 under a Chinese identity card and the name of Li Hoi-min. Twice he was refused U.S. citizenship because, said the court, he was "not attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution" (presumably because his first wife had divorced him on grounds of physical cruelty). In 1941 he was naturalized at last. The Senators hinted that Lee, in Commerce, had held up aviation gasoline shipments to Nationalist China...
...General Assembly, President Nasrollah Entezam of Iran made a mild attempt to take the Chinese bull by the horns. Entezam wanted to name a seven-nation committee to study the question of whether Nationalist or Communist delegates should represent China in the U.N. Under Russian pressure, Entezam decided to forget his plan temporarily. Like everything else, it would have to wait...
Over the ages, counts, princes and marquises have flourished and multiplied in Italy like olive trees. In the Italian view, a fancy title, like oil on a lettuce leaf, lends zest and flavor to a man's name. Italy's House of Savoy doled out titular rank in the Order of the Crown of Italy to almost half a million Italians. A janitor with 30 years' service-in a government ministry was virtually assured of a knighthood, and the right to be addressed as cavaliere...
...girl from Wisconsin (real name Hildegarde Loretta Sell) thought she was "beginning to get the deep feeling of America." The customers were enjoying it all, deep...
...kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make? A fresh name has been added to the list of Christianities...