Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai's Garrison Commander Chen Ta-ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...
...succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor tailor shop and dry-goods store. Peter Makushak rarely saw his wife and believed her story that their son had gone to Canada...
...November, Congress is not going to indulge in any whole-hearted repeal of Taft-Hartley. If Administration leaders had been alert enough to compromise at the right moment, they could have put through a bill which might have repealed such legislative larceny as the ban on the closed shop even if it retained items like the non-communist affidavit and the union financial reports. They missed their opportunity; it will now be increasingly difficult to pass any new law with the opposition unified...
Student entertainment seekers will' have their last chance today to order tickets for Boston amusements through Phillips Brooks House's Ticket Agency. Cambridge's only non-profit box office closes shop for the summer at 3 p.m. this afternoon...
...children stared at the piles of lollipops, taffy, gumdrops, and other treasures in shop windows, many of them for the first time in their lives feeling the sweet pangs of choice. In London's Hyde Park, a queue moved forward through the brilliant sunshine as a little slate-roofed kiosk opened for business. One boy unfolded the mystery of Life Savers for his brothers: "There's nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained...