Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Marshall Plan has been in existence for almost half of its allotted life span of four years. In Paris last week, OEEC released its second annual progress report on the state of Western Europe's economy. The 378-page report contained a justly prideful appraisal of past achievement, and a hopeful but carefully hedged prediction for the future...
...past three years, says Burnham, Communism made a net gain in its drive for power. The free world contained the enemy in Europe, but retreated dismally in Asia. Still, "dynamically considered, the years 1946-49 show a net trend against the Communists. If the Communists are not yet losing-and they are not-their rate of advance has at least been slowed...
Whistle at the Door. After one Oasis evening. Baby and a brunette playgirl, roaring down a Sāo Paulo road at 70 miles an hour, veered away from an-unmarked excavation, slowed down with brakes screeching, then smacked into a telephone pole. Peering past the sedan's crumpled nose, the girl complained: "The telephone pole is still standing." Without a word Baby backed up, stepped on the gas and demolished both pole and Cadillac...
...about culture," trilled Authoress Ilka (Past Imperfect) Chase, 44, who blew into Portland, Ore. to tell dealers how to sell Cadillacs to women. "Of course," she told the press, one "can be very successful or proficient and still not be cultured...
...little groups, sweatered and blue-jeaned undergraduates streamed onto the stage, filling up the choir chairs to await their turns. Hour after hour they kept coming. All night long, all the next day, all through the following night and half the following day, students poured out confessions of past sins and rededicated themselves...