Word: denning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plump, myopic Son of Heaven called a trusted Court attendant and Elder Statesman, aging (77) Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, President of the Privy Council, to form a new Government. On the stooped shoulders of this wrinkled old courtier might well rest the shameful bur den of leading Japan to surrender...
...wind was warm enough last week to melt the snow around the tipples of most of the nation's coal mines; there was a faint hint of spring in the air. Like a grey old bear ending his winter's hibernation, John Llewellyn Lewis lumbered from his den to negotiate with the nation's bituminous operators...
...Unter den Linden, too, the new season brought its collections. Reported Berlin Fashion Writer Gabriele Müller...
...died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation in a den of lions." Pierson, a happy, irresponsible sort, took on Louise and her four children with cheerful unconcern...
...males over 13 were ordered to report for Volksstürm duty. The defense of the city was laid out in three zones: 1) the suburbs, including Potsdam, Erkner, Bernau, Lankwitz; 2) the outskirts of the city proper; 3) an inner citadel based on the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden. Even the zoo was fortified...