Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since 1949, U.S. businessmen trying to operate in-or get out of-Red China have learned the bitter truth of this ancient Chinese proverb. Under the guise of smiling cooperation, the Communists have systematically stripped businesses while holding their managers virtual prisoners. Last week the last of hundreds of U.S. businessmen, who once did a $1 billion business in China, was safely in Hong Kong with a tale of seven years of subtle commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan...
Royal Prospects. The King's prospects are better than his predecessors'. For more than a century the Kings of Nepal, whose subjects believe them to be the reincarnation of the god Vishnu, were virtual prisoners of their Prime Ministers, whose usurped power was handed down through the Rana family for generation after generation. A revolution sparked by neighboring India in 1950 toppled the Ranas and restored the Kings, under the benevolent protection of Jawaharlal Nehru, who needs mountainous Nepal as a buffer against Communist China...
...this very frank talk, Pusey said there was a "virtual non-existence of suitable, economical housing in Cambridge" for the younger Faculty, causing members to disperse over too wide an area...
...should like to correct the one vital error in your otherwise basically accurate account of last weekend's convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of Massachusetts. A platform which was strong in every respect save one was carried with virtual unanimity. The one exception was civil liberties, not civil rights, as stated in your lead...
...grief over the latest disclosures [in Soviet Poland] that a large number of Jewish writers and other Jewish leaders were framed up and executed." Asking "what false theories . . . played a part in the violations," the Worker provided its own answer (like Communists all over the world), in a virtual admission of complicity in Stalin's crimes. Said the Worker: "For our part, we frankly admit we were too prone to accept the explanation of why Jewish culture had disappeared in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s...