Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family took the body home, held a wake and a $996 funeral, including $15 for a ringing ministerial eulogy. Last week the family had cause to regret its lavishness. The sons & daughters had started getting cards signed "Dad" from Corrigan's Lumber Camp, Upson, Wis. Startled, two sons got in their car, drove to Upson, found August comfortably curled up on a logging-camp bunk...
...Colorado, soldiers from Camp Carson drove Army Weasels through the storm to bring out patients bound for hospitals. On the open range, the storm threatened thousands of cattle; they drifted in bunches, rumps to the wind, weakening steadily from lack of food...
Last fall, Moise Lawenda, a Spanish Jew from Poland appeared on the scene. He had been repatriated with 365 other Spanish Jews from a Nazi concentration camp; his entire family of 30 had perished. He met secretly with Ignacio Bauer and one Joseph Cuby, a British Jew from Gibraltar. He persuaded them that the time was ripe to reopen a synagogue in Spain...
...intrusion that Author de la Roche welcomes is her daily bundle of mail, with letters from Jalna readers all over the world. In last week's mail was a hand-tooled notecase from D.P.s in a camp in Germany. Other letters came from Dutch people whose farms were flooded, from Frenchmen who lived out the Nazi occupation. Most correspondents write wistfully of the serenity of Jalna manor and the abundant life of its people...
...soldier to the Germans or hand him over to the Jewish leader, to certain death in either case? Or should he save the deserter's skin? Weinstock stuck by his belief in the immediate human act; he hid the soldier. Later, when the British came, some former concentration-camp prisoners recognized the German deserter as a guard who had shot helpless men. They killed...