Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...months, Municipal Auditor William Sternkopf Jr. had delved into Jersey City's past, hoping to uncover fresh lore about the quaint folkways of old Frank Hague and his crumbled Hudson County political barony. Last week Auditor Sternkopf announced happily that he had tracked down full details of one of the most significant rituals of Boss Hague's time-an institution known as "Rice Pud ding...
...share of memories. He now lives in a roomy apartment; he has a job in a fish market, just as he had back in Nowogrod, Poland before Hitler's soldiers came, and now he does not have to fear the police. But he has not forgotten the past-the horrors of war and the concentration camp where his wife and four children were killed in a crematorium...
...Sunday in Korea; it was still only 3 p.m. Saturday in Washington. Just before a grey dawn came up over the peninsula, North Korea's Communist army started to roll south. Past terraced hills, green with newly transplanted rice, rumbled tanks. In the rain-heavy sky roared an occasional fighter plane. Then the heavy artillery started to boom...
...this trend continues, the Huks will be finished, for they cannot live without the aid-voluntary or forced-of the people in the countryside. In this sense, the Huk war is a struggle for the confidence of thousands of peasants and rural workers who in their underpaid, underprivileged past have never been given much reason for confidence. Who is winning this struggle now? Maybe a certain Colonel Abay knows a little of the answer. And the men of Bamban in Tarlac, and a peasant boy of Nueva Ecija-maybe they know a little. Let them speak...
...past year, the Chinese Nationalist navy has blockaded Shanghai-to the chagrin of Hong Kong merchants who are eager to resume trade with Red China. In May, when the Nationalists abandoned their naval base on Chusan Island, 100 miles from Shanghai, Hong Kong was sure that the Nationalists could not keep up their blockade. The Nationalists vowed that they would. When Hong Kong traders laughed off warnings, sent their ships to Shanghai anyway, the Nationalists threw their Formosa-based air force into the fight...