Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Douglas MacArthur went to Formosa in August, the dismay of the U.S. State Department was audible all the way to Mao's palace. When MacArthur decided to warn publicly against the loss of Formosa, against "those who in the past propagandized . . . defeatism and appeasement in the Pacific," he was silenced by presidential command. By last week the net result of the U.S. action on Formosa had been to suspend the Nationalist sea-air blockade and thereby to open the ports of Red China for copper, oil and armaments from the West...
...Louis Cardinals, who finished out of the first division for the first time in twelve years, already had the resignation of Manager Eddie Dyer. Last week they gave the job to gangling Martin ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion, 33, an infield star of Cardinal teams for the past ten years. Said Marty, the youngest manager in the majors: "I'm going to do my best to win the pennant...
Extra-sensitive equipment was necessary, and the radio astronomers had to wait for still, rainless nights, though radio reception from the stars is not ordinarily affected by the weather. Six times they allowed the rotation of the earth to sweep the telescope past the nebula. Each time they moved the mast slightly to cover a different strip of sky. In the four middle sweeps they found what they were looking for: low peaks in the curves representing radio energy reaching the telescope. Careful analysis of the curves showed that the waves must have come from an oval object like...
...ugly working-class characters combine good nature, impudence and long-suffering patience with a proper English sense of a citizen's importance. Example: a squat cockney in a cap, a runny-nosed brat dangling from his shoulder, strides past a cluster of bristling generals to inspect a parade-dress line of soldiers. Giles's caption: "His argument is that as a taxpayer he has as much right to inspect things as anybody else...
...plan has arisen from students who have interpreted the directive as an attempt to set up a form of student council. Councils, with the purpose of advising the administration on undergraduate opinion and needs, have been repeatedly scorned and voted out of existence by the student body in the past...