Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before...
...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
...always cherished a sweeping vision of India in the vanguard of an awakened Asia. He long has been in correspondence with other Asiatic leaders. He met Mohamed Hatta, Indonesia's Premier, at an anti-imperialist rally in Brussels 20 years ago, has been writing to him ever since. He is a close friend and backer of Burma's Premier Thakin...
...When a prim group of elderly American women visited his Mexico City salon a few weeks ago, plump Dress Designer Henri Chatillon disappeared into a dressing room, rustled out a few seconds later in a flowing black gown and a big hat. "I shocked hell out of them," he tittered, "but I did have a good time...
...British father and a French mother, Monsieur Henri was born Henry Hutchinson in Paris 42 years ago. He came to Mexico in 1942 and set up shop as Henri de Chatillon, hatmaker, in the Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap...