Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Czechs found themselves in German-administered D.P. camps filled with Sudeten Germans recently expelled from Czechoslovakia. In a camp near Hof, in Bavaria, Czech refugees complained: "We are living on the German economy, sleeping in German shelters, eating German food. This cannot continue. It is impossible for us. They are laughing at us. How can the democratic nations of the world permit this to happen...
Damascus became military headquarters for the Arab drive against Zionism after U.N. voted for partition. Syria's parliament last week voted a military conscription law. Tough-looking Arab warriors in battle dress and kaffiyas (headdresses), crowded the streets on leave from nearby Camp Qatana. Military police of the volunteer army set up standards of discipline unusual in Arab forces. One night last week a volunteer stepped into Freddie's bar (Freddie worked nine years in Detroit factories) to order a drink of arak, a fiery, licorice-flavored distillate of raisins. Two Arab MPs accosted him. "Aren...
...Harvard and Radcliffe chapters of NSA are looking for counsellors for their summer camp at Vences, France. Applicants must be able to pay their round-trip passage and speak fluent French, since they will be in direct contact with French children...
...found a girl. ("Until then I thought parents bought children in the market place, but when I found different-no seminary for me.") During the war, serving in the Italian army, he was captured by the Germans, but escaped in women's clothes he stole from the camp show equipment. He arrived in the U.S. with eleven trunks. Says Giuseppe: "I want to make much money, have big success and stay here a long time." How about Hollywood? Says Giuseppe grandly: "I am here...
Last summer, 750 undergraduates who registered with the Employment Bureau pocketed $87,459 doing everything from baby sitting to her tending. Biggest single source of each was camp councilling, which neither 76 men $27,677. Resort hotel work, the runnerup, provided 41 students with...