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...next morning, unaware of its contents, workers at Komoroczky's machine shop nailed up the crate and bolted it firmly to the floor of a flatcar. Soon afterward, Imre was on his way. Cramped and crouching, he shivered with cold as the car rolled westward. After the second day, he could not eat his dry bread. By the end of the sixth day, his drinking water was used up. It took the slow freight that carried his crate three days to get to the Czech frontier at Bratislava. It stood for seven days on a siding near Prague before...
...year "by a solid Democratic vote in the Senate." The delegates cheered the 18-minute speech, gave Ike a standing ovation at the end. He was the third President to come personally before the A.F.L. in its 73 years (the other two: Wilson in 1917, Hoover in 1930), and afterward even Meany noted "a lot of nice things" about the Eisenhower Administration. Obviously, the A.F.L.'s condemnation was neither unanimous nor strongly felt...
...days the Hewitts were married, but it was all tragically unlike Dorothy's dreams. Two witnesses were the only guests. Alone in the cottage afterward, the couple nibbled at the big cake. Four days later, brokenhearted Dorothy packed her unworn wedding gown and other belongings and went back to Jamaica...
...beautiful to do nothing, and afterward rest...
...sheer force of character, Washington established that he, not Congress, would name his Cabinet, and that he, with the Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...