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Word: childrene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Athens, Tom Pappas plots his moves in an office overlooking Athens' Constitution Square. Athenians commonly believe the many legends about him-that he told his friend "Dick" to pick Agnew, that he is the CIA chief in Greece. As he moves through the streets of Athens, perpetually patting children's heads and squeezing hands, people often stop him to ask favors, like securing the release of political prisoners. Pappas helps when he can, which is often. He still invests much of his time being useful to people. Ultimately, many of them also seem to be useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: The Greek for Go-Between | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Johnson. Having succeeded to the ICC's annually rotating chairmanship this year, she leads a staff of 1,784 that processes about 6,000 cases a year. "Peaches" Brown, as the ICC's $29,500-a-year chairman is known, also manages to take care of two children and make frequent trips home to the 700-acre Pliny, W. Va., estate that was deeded to her family in the 18th century by George Washington. No one questions her familiarity with rules and regulations. A banker's daughter, she is the wife of a Charleston and Washington attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: New Scenery for the ICC | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, in which 30,000 perished; even the more famous six-month German onslaught at Stalingrad, where almost half a million were killed. In Leningrad, which had a population of about 3,000,000, some 1,500,000 men, women and children died -of starvation or under the unremitting rain of Nazi shells and bombs, which continued for 2½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...blockade began, scant food reserves were swiftly consumed. Luftwaffe raids on warehouses sent tons of sugar, meat and flour up in smoke. Rations were cut again and again, finally falling to half a pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages of the famine, parents kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...exhaustion, and sometimes their bodies lay untouched for weeks. When they were finally hoisted onto trucks, one observer recalls, they were so frozen that "they gave a metallic ring." The silence of the city was broken only by bouts of German shellfire and, in winter, by the squeak of children's sleds bearing corpses to cemeteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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