Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-powered, bulletproof ZIS limousine sped along Belgrade's narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out of the car stepped a husky man in a blue dress uniform. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist dictator of Yugoslavia and a gaudily tricked-out specter to the rest of the Communist world, was going to make a speech...
...while driving in Cheng Hsien Street, my car almost ran over a beggar who lay writhing and twitching in the roadway. I started to get out to help him, but my interpreter warned that in the eyes of the local police I would automatically become responsible for him, would probably have to pay for his funeral. The beggar, the interpreter explained, was dying of starvation. We drove on. On the way back we saw the beggar's body, quite still, with head and shoulders grotesquely protruding into the street while pedestrians and rickshas eddied around...
...puzzlement of parents, many a daughter comes home bubbling about the terrific nocaut at the fights or the jonrons which piled up the escor at the beisbol game. But if her deit was real quiut, she might say very little about how they spent the evening-parqueando in his car...
...some lines, buying had dropped off in spite of price cuts. Nash cut its prices $20 to $120; Willys, whose recent cut had brought no notable sales spurt, went on a four-day week. Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber...
...last week, an armored car drew up before a six-story building on Manhattan's East 51st Street. Out stepped a mail carrier clutching a brown-wrapped package. Entering the building, he plunked the package on the reception desk of Jeweler Harry Winston...