Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flowers grow in Sains-en-Gohelle. The town, the houses and the people are grey. The miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in the Pas-de-Calais, the wallowing armies of World War I swayed back & forth in the mud, and all around are historic names: Arras, Lens, Cambrai, Douai, Vimy Ridge. No flowers grow in Sains, but in season they can be picked from the fields and hedgerows outside, and there are usually...
...elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
Music by University composers will share the program of the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club concert in Paine Hall on Tuesday night, which includes Debusay's "En Blane et Noir," Sonata for Clarinet and Plane by Leonard Bernstcin '39, and "Das Marlculeben" by Paul Hiudemith...
...Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends en route...
Three weeks ago Pieter was on his way to Tanganyika on a dowsing expedition. En route he stopped at a hotel in Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia. Pieter wanted a shower. But peer as he would, Pieter could see no moonbeams glinting from the plumbing in his hotel bathroom. Salisbury was in the midst of an acute water shortage. Pieter called his manager. The manager called the mayor, who just then was sitting, racking his brains over the water crisis, in a tub containing two meager inches of water. When Pieter's manager offered to help, the mayor...