Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...
CRIMSON correspondents en route to Washington reported roads to be in moderately good condition...
...there are some great lines en route to the denouement. A doctor asks Groucho, as the converted veterinarian is about to give a patient a suspiciously horse-sized capsule, "Isn't that a bit large for a pill?" Groucho answers, "Well, it was too small for a basketball, and I didn't know what else to do with it." A nurse asks Groucho to okay a document, and he responds, "I'm much too busy--I'll put the O on now, but you'll have to come back later...
Earlier in the week, another Kennedy Frontiersman, passing through Canada, got himself on the bad side of Ottawa. In Vancouver en route to Tokyo, White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. declared in an airport interview that "anything that supports Castro threatens the prospects of democratic success in Latin America." Retorted Canada's External Affairs Secretary Howard Green in the Commons: "If it was made in the terms suggested, it was a most unusual and, I think, improper thing for an official of another country...
East Germans show uncommon imagination in escaping Walter Ulbricht's Communist prison state.* A circus troupe, animals, merry-go-round and all, once drove across to the West as if it were en route to a carnival. One man reinforced the family car with armor plate, then crashed through the Wall with wife and friends as the Communist Volkspolizei fired vainly at them. An East German locomotive engineer opened the throttle and took his whole train to West Berlin. But until last week, no one had found a way of reaching freedom under the very feet of the Vopos...