Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, sad-eyed Yugoslav named Eugene Stefan got there this summer with his grown-up daughter Heddy, he felt that he had found a haven at last. World War II had made him a wanderer; his wife had died of hardship, his mother had died in a concentration camp and his sister had disappeared. Afterward, Tito's government had refused him the right to go home to Yugoslavia...
...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...
...Sikh workers infiltrated the consulate building and took over the gates. They demanded 6½ months wages plus severance pay. Acting Consul General Walter P. McConaughy and two other officials were locked in. The workers threatened to bring in their entire force of 800, complete with wives & children, to camp in the consulate halls. "We will stay until we starve," they said...
...attempt.began in 1945 when hustling Jim Pfohl, then a 32-year-old music professor at Davidson College, came upon an abandoned summer camp for boys in the woods near Brevard. The lake was a weed patch; the buildings were gone to rack & ruin. Pfohl made a pay-you-later deal with the owners, rebuilt the camp and opened it. After three seasons in the red, he persuaded Brevard's civic leaders to back the camp...
They have not had cause for regret. Every week of the season, the camp concerts bring hundreds of visitors. The Brevard Music Festival, which is held in August after the camp itself closes, brings hundreds more. Big event of this year's festival: the first complete performance of Beethoven's Ninfh Symphony ever given in the South...