Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Natives call it El Monstruo. Belching 2,700 tons of fiery rock a minute, the crater has over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching for a few minutes, broke into tears and hysteria. Hardened volcanologists, by their own account, have come away dazed and with knees shaking. Said Dr. William F. Foshag of the Smithsonian Institution: "It is, I believe, just as spectacular as Vesuvius ever was, and in its more violent phases it is better...
...debacle in Normandy it has been plain that Germany has committed her military capital. Since then the enemy's defense has been a series of check-kiting swindles against time. They may have begun even earlier, when he drew on the Bank of the West to bolster his account with the Bank of the East (before Warsaw and East Prussia...
...collection (mostly written by relatively unknown authors) rate pretty high on common sense, low on imagination and passion. Most impressive: Of This Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student is calculated to make almost any pedagogue squirm...
...Foreign Commissar looked tired. He read in a voice without expression: "For more than three years Bulgaria has been in effect helping Germany in its war against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Government took account of the fact that, being a small country...
Margaret also had a little chat with Emily's bank manager. She put him in a tizzy by hinting that Emily was not quite normal these days and might try to withdraw her fat bank account. So when Emily -who was growing frightened-phoned the manager to say she wanted to change her will, the manager just said soothingly that he'd drop around some time. But he did not appear. Upstairs, Margaret was filing the top off the ampoule of adrenalin...