Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ohio's business-farm trucks, oil trucks, family sedans-buzzed by. In the town of Nevada (pop. 1,000), a mile-long Pennsylvania freight train supplied a thunderous overtone. In tiny Wharton, a siren shrieked and a fire truck rattled past the speaker, slowing down to let four of Taft's 40 listeners jump on. "Maybe it's just a Democratic plot," said Taft dryly, and went on talking. Nothing stopped him, nothing could stop him short of a bolt of lightning...
...regular house guest hung for murder-that was Fred Small who was dropped in 1918 over in Concord ... I made a special trip to Concord and gave him my suit and that is a damned sight better service to the guest than . . . the Statler people have in the past, or will in the foreseeable future render a guest...
...have destroyed that balance before an adequate substitute has been created was to invite aggression and possibly war. That is exactly what we did, and . . . that is the main reason why we are where we are . . . We were disgusted at the past, we longed for something new, something better for the future. Associating the balance of power with the past, we wanted no part...
...Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot-high plaster...
...trouble is a tired heart," said 61-year-old Sir Stafford Cripps last week as he resigned the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. "I suppose," he went on, "that the stress and strain of the past twelve years has had its effect. I suspected that all was not right twelve months ago and now this has been confirmed by my doctors...