Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last night approximately 60 people gathered in the Dudley House common room to learn more about the White Rose Foundation, a group that commemorates an anti-Nazi movement from the 1940s...
Muller, who was dismissed without honor from the German army in the 1940s and was a member of the White Rose movement, said the goal of the protest was to take action against the Nazis and national socialism...
...Mature, 82, the movie actor famed for playing Samson decades ago, putt-putts in his golf cart to the post office each day. The area 30 miles north of San Diego is a historic landmark, California's oldest planned community and a place so beautiful a writer in the 1940s described it as "the pocket where the Creator keeps all his treasures. Anything will grow there." Live and let live, in fact. In the gated community of 2,500 million-dollar homes, the cult members rented the 9,200-sq.-ft. mansion at 18421 Colina Norte, complete with pool...
DIED. CHUCK GREEN, 78, peerless tap dancer; in Oakland, California. Since the 1940s, the tall, genial Green spoke eloquently with his flashing footwork. Starting out in vaudeville as a child, he kept on performing well into the '90s, appearing on Broadway. Within the closely knit tap world, he was cherished as one of the greatest of the old-time hoofers...
Just as conversation stopped in the 1940s when Luciano entered a room and an austere silence of mixed awe and respect descended, it is a cardinal sin to whisper and interrupt the don during The Godfather. As one of Luciano's buddies would recall in a recent A&E docu-drama, "The clink of a glass, the drop of a hat--you'd hear the littlest sound, everyone was so quiet when Lucky arrived at the club." These were high profile men: men who drank their whisky straight, men who traveled in a cloud of cash and Cuban cigars, leaving...