Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About a year ago I remember being startled at the news that this country had willingly opened its doors to some highly skilled German inventors and research scientists, who had devoted their lives to building up the efficient Nazi war machine. No voice of protest . . . was raised against such a move...
...nickel cigar was back in Manhattan and the $1.99 shirt in Kansas City. A basket of groceries which cost a Des Moines housewife $4.19 a year ago could be bought last week for $3.29. The papers advertised sales in everything from bed sheets to mink coats...
...where workmen had labored overtime under nightlong floodlights to build 19 new hotels for the booming luxury trade, that trade was no longer booming. In Seattle a waitress complained: "Things are starting to tighten up all right; you get twice as many 10? tips as you did six months ago. No more two bits and four bits...
...Richard Hoffmann, a prominent Park Avenue psychiatrist, furnished an explanation of sorts. When Frank came to him three years ago, he didn't sleep so well: his mind was troubled. He suffered from a sense of "frustrated superiority"-socially, that is. Frankie was anxious to meet the better people-"and nothing but the better," said Frankie...
...falling when the announcement came over the detention camp radio at Xylotombou, Cyprus. A young Jew scurried along the camp's muddy paths, blowing a trumpet as he ran. To Abraham Greenberg, the sound was like that of the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho long ago. Abraham ran to tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built a bonfire; around it they...