Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless well of wealth...
...were carried off by the Reds to the 'people's democracies' for Marxist education. A few managed to escape and joined 17,000 refugee children in homes organized by energetic Queen Fredericka. One half-starved, trembling boy at one children's camp said: 'They came at night . . . We hid in the cellar but they dragged us out. They shot father outside the village, took mother away, and left me there.' When I asked him if he would rather be in some other place than his camp, the boy said, 'Is there a place...
...Greece except the northern frontier areas. Actually, some military observers believe that Van Fleet is too optimistic, that the guerrillas will continue tormenting Greece as long as they are supplied and equipped from abroad. Last week Van Fleet still stood by what he had said when he first came to Greece: "My advice to the rebels is to give up now. Either stay and get killed...
...last week the "extra" bells in Tokyo newspaper offices jangled urgently. The best & biggest news since the occupation came clacking over the teletypes from Washington, D.C.: the U.S. had renounced all further reparations claims on Japan. It was the most striking proof the West had yet offered that it had abandoned its postwar policy of keeping Japan on her knees, seriously meant to rebuild Japan's shattered economy...
...Brazil's Emperor -and he liked them. He sampled Cincinnati's beer, explored Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, compared San Francisco's Golden Gate to Rio's mountain-girt Guanabara Bay. In Boston he had long talks with Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier; when he came back to the Philadelphia exposition, Alexander Graham Bell showed him his newly invented telephone. "My God," said Dom Pedro, "it talks...