Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...declined flatly to say whether he was a Communist, whether he knew Browder, whether he knew Budenz. He admitted he had known Lattimore since 1934, had worked with him as a "professional colleague" at the Institute of Pacific Relations. They saw each other at international conferences, he explained-that sort of thing. It had been five or six years, he thought, since he had seen him last. As to whether Lattimore was a Communist, "to the best of my knowledge and belief, he was not," said Field. Next day Tydings moved to cite Browder and Field for contempt. Apart from...
...history at Columbia and Chinese at Yale's Institute of Far Eastern Languages (whose director called him one of the most brilliant students who ever attended the institute). In 1947, he came to work for TIME Inc., soon took charge of TIME-LIFE'S Shanghai Bureau, the sort of job for which he had been carefully preparing himself since he laid aside his uniform. He told the great and bitter story of Nationalist China's demoralization and retreat, of the Communist sweep to victory...
...imagine what sort of reception my husband will get in your country," said Liaquat Ali Khan's wife last week. "Americans will probably think he is Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law or perhaps a distant cousin of the Shah of Iran." Liaquat Ali Khan, the 54-year-old Prime Minister of Pakistan, due to arrive in Washington this week, is not related to any Oriental potentates, but his power and influence are far greater than those of any princeling in the Islamic world...
...This sort of thing went on for two more days. The class-cutting spread until about 10% of the high-school enrollment was involved. Some stayed home, some went to the movies, others staged minor demonstrations around their own schools. But for most of the class-cutters, the target was City Hall...
...year-old Professor Barney K. Baker started off for his office each morning and started home each night. He was a stooped and moody man who day after day did much the same thing, and year after year gave much the same psychology lectures. Students thought him an odd-sort, difficult to approach, and no man for after-class discussions. In all his 24 years on the campus, he had never made a close friend...