Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny villages on the steep cliffs of Vitsi, Greek peasants, freed from Communist rule after four years, crossed themselves reverently and gave thanks to To Thavma Tis Panagheias (the Miracle of the Virgin), which they thanked for their liberation. U.S. officers predicted that summer's end would see Greece free of all organized guerrilla warfare. On the Vitsi front, Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. military mission, said: "This is the beginning of the end...
...tempers rose. Bramuglia accused Remorino of plotting to get his job. Finally, his composure lost, the Foreign Minister used the classic Spanish obscenity about a man's mother. Then, pulling his sixth resignation from his pocket, he slapped it on the President's desk. "This is the end of this!" he said, and slammed...
...Mexico villagers hospitalized last week (a ten-year-old boy at Taos, a 37-year-old man at Albuquerque) need not share the fate of the helpless millions slaughtered by bubonic plague in the past. At week's end, both were recovering handily, the boy treated with streptomycin and sulfadiazine, the man with penicillin and aureomycin...
First they heard Beethoven's noble and powerful "Archduke" trio-a perfectionist's performance, marred only slightly by an accidentally turned microphone and the nearby snort of commuter trains. By week's end, when the three had got through their program of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Ravel (in trios, duos and solos), they had Chicago in the palms of their hands...
...applause that rolled across the lawns from the great wedge-shaped Music Shed at week's end was still not extravagant, but it had warmed up by several degrees. Conductor Koussevitzky had let Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra give the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony last month, even though he had commissioned it. Last week he was prepared to do the symphony justice himself...