Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grudging tribute came from Friedrich Ebert, Communist mayor of Berlin's Soviet sector. "They seem to have no lack of planes and pilots and gasoline," he said. "I live in Potsdam and hear the damned things roaring over the house all night...
...white monkey" chipped away at the stone, glowered at the people, and finally died, still chained. Years later, other white sea monkeys came to Jogjakarta and read what the first one had carved on the rock. In Latin he had written : "Laugh at your own stupidity, but do not laugh at the misfortunes of a poor man." In French, Italian and Dutch he had repeated (soon after Copernicus and before Galileo) a sentence so as to form a circle: "So moves the world...
...rest of the story. From behind the chimney, hardly large enough to cover them both, they continued firing with their last rounds of ammunition. Then the guerrillas managed to pick off Anastasios with their Vickers machine gun. As he fell, he started rolling down the slanting roof. George came out from behind the chimney to grab him. He too was caught by the Vickers. He fell across the body...
Small Proof. When the guerrillas in the house heard no further resistance, they came up onto the roof. They kicked the two motionless bodies, which rolled off the roof and fell 20 feet to the garden below. There, others administered the coup...
...Maharaja of Jaipur put on a good show. For the first post-independence session of the All-India Congress he sponsored a rousing parade down the main streets of Jaipur city. First came three silver-spangled elephants from the princely stables (see cut), followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks...