Word: true
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had formerly refused U.S. aid, now recoiled at the thought of loans from Peking. Thailand's Marshal Sarit had placed an embargo on imports from Red China and Malaya closed down two Red Chinese banks as centers of smuggling and espionage. And though India's Nehru, true to his nature, continued to vacillate, hostility toward Red China was rampant among the Indian masses...
...folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven are not to be found by following a regular schedule, he is always ready to swerve off course to answer the invitational glances of a lady or to chase a taxi containing his true love along a seacliff highway...
...time is 1767, and great political and social changes are on the way. but the Di Rondo family is as impervious to change as only true eccentrics can be. When young Cosimo, an alarmingly imaginative twelve-year-old, has a run-in with his stuffy father, he climbs a big tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century...
...Bronx, no less than in Shropshire, it is true that...
...stood there with a fat cigar in his mouth he was almost as surprised as I. I put out my hand, which he shook firmly, and I told him that he looked more tired than when I saw him at Harvard, which may or may not have been true, but which gained his attention for the moment. He admitted to keeping late hours since his American tour in April...