Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smugness can put an iron curtain around us as effectively, as government can. The ignorance that I think is most dangerous to us is our own. The Nürnberg experience therefore leads me to doubt the wisdom of many people who think we have to ... break in through the Soviet iron curtain, that we must somehow penetrate it with information, news and our own ideology. I agree that the iron curtain is regrettable. But I think it is ultimately more disastrous to those it shuts in than to us whom it shuts...
...Antonio, Emilio Landeros, 6, riding home from school on a bus, started printing a letter: "Dear Santa, I have been good. I want a ..." But the bus had reached his corner. He scurried off, ran around the front of the bus, was struck down by a truck and killed...
...arrived in Israel. "We have a great task before us here," he said. "We must make of Israel everything that Moses foresaw for the promised land." "Indeed we must," said the newcomer. "We must make a Switzerland of Israel," the oldtimer went on. "East and West may fight all around us, but we must keep ourselves detached from it as the Swiss have done with their policy of strict neutrality." "Yes, yes," said the newcomer. "We have few natural resources, but we must develop specialized industries and skills as the Swiss have," said the oldtimer. "Like the Swiss we must...
...iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
There was just enough time before dark for return to Tsaolaochi. On the way back we stopped for a village funeral. Lined against the twilight in an empty paddyfield stood half a dozen countrymen around a high-ended Chinese coffin. The chief mourners wore white headbands of grief. They were burying their mother, Chang Hu-shih, an old woman...