Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such show of popular force had been seen in Germany since 100 years ago, when the people of Berlin took to the same streets to fight the royal troops. In 1948 they were without revolutionary leaders, but they had one great unifying purpose-freedom from Red tyranny. Momentously, the weight and voice of the German masses was coming into play in the battle between East and West. There was enough mass power in the Berlin throng to change the fate of Europe...
Oldtime Party Leader Lucretiu Patra-scanu was ousted from the Ministry of Justice and jailed, along with his wife, a few months ago. There is no question of baksheesh in his case. His sin is in wanting a Communist Rumania for the Rumanian, rather than the Russian, Communists...
Flight from the Heathen. Old Zvi, her father, would not live in the land Ana rules. Two years ago Zvi came to Ana asking her help for a group of Rumanian Jews. She received him amiably on a Saturday afternoon. Coffee and cake was brought in. Old Zvi exploded: "How dare you offer me hot coffee on a Sabbath! Have you gone mad?" Ana, trying to calm her father, led him to the kitchen and showed him the electric percolator. She explained that, since no one needed to strike a match, no religious law was being violated, but he called...
...baby chose the moment his mother approached the general's desk to burst into tears. As a secretary fluttered about trying to pacify the child, the woman shouted to Chiang that one of her sons had been killed two years ago by a car, and she had never been compensated. Would he please do something about...
Emilio Razzore had made his circus his life. Like his father and grandfather, who started the circus in Rio 112 years ago, he had toured the dusty towns and cities of South America and the Caribbean, with his five clowns, his dancing bears, and the chimpanzees that rode bicycles. He had tigers and monkeys, and trained dogs. Best of all, he had two beautiful acrobats: his daughter Dolinda and his niece Guillermina...