Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cousins were not glad to see Jan. There was scarcely enough food to go around. The Nazis seized him, sent him as a slave laborer to an Austrian farm near the Italian border. There news reached him that his wife & child had been sent to a labor camp in Siberia (actually they had gone to Pinega Camp, in the frozen forests near Archangel...
...forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train to a camp in Southern Rhodesia. Later they were sent to a new refugee camp near Mount Kilimanjaro in Central Africa...
From Quito, President Galo Plaza Lasso flew to Ambato. He set up headquarters in the central square and for two days, without sleep or a change of clothing, directed rescue and relief work. Around him the homeless squatted among their salvaged blankets and cooking pots, and in nearly every group candles flickered before the picture of a saint...
...explain his hypochondria, Luke says: "You get a little thing here & there, up & down, something that don't look so bad at first, and first thing you know it's really bad. I just don't take any chances. We got a lot of good trainers around here and I like 'em. Sort of like to have 'em work over...
When little English Soprano Maggie Teyte first got the idea of doing a new version of Gounod's Faust, she had Hitler in mind: "I wanted to show how Hitler, too, was a Mephistopheles, pulling wires and moving people around just as such men have through history ... I thought the Faust story would be a powerful...