Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...briefs which the American delegation would take to Paris: "Anxiety or nervousness among Americans here is unbecoming." In Paris, the U.S. and allies would hold better cards than they had held at any time since Yalta; this time, they were determined not to throw them away...
...Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, who was himself to spend a lifetime looking for the blue bird, home seemed the least likely place on earth in which to look. As a dreamy young lawyer in Belgium's bustling, businesslike city of Ghent back in the 1880s, he longed to get away beyond the city's narrow horizon with its slowly turning windmills. On the margins of his law books, he used to scribble ethereal verse about shining knights and gossamer ladies...
...Kaputt. "Shortly after the [Russian] occupation Elli, Hanna and Margret were visited by [Red army] soldiers, who told them to go away with them immediately for three days' work ... Agnes would have been taken in the same way, but the Russians who came for her were apparently unnerved by the screams of the children who saw her going. Next day, however . . . she was arrested...
...Away from war-clogged roads, but within earshot of the thump of collapsing bridges, China's peasants worked their land in immemorial rhythm. Across fields heavy with the smell of dung, water buffalo pulled ancient wooden plows. Civil war had hardly touched this part of China before. "We are a peace-loving, obedient people," said one old woman. "We are not rich. We want only to do our work. Will the Communists hurt...
Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...