Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, the late Hadji Mehmet, was the most important and feared man of the district. Galloping horsemen slowed down when they passed our house at dawn so as not to wake Hadji Mehmet. Roosters crowed in the name of Hadji Mehmet. But even he died. Nothing is forever. When I was a child, there were seven of us in the village who went to school to learn to read and write from the hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied...
Most Hated. For his kind of peace, Laureano was prepared to fight with the government's full power. Even before the convention began, an old Laureano henchman took over the key Interior ministry from a non-political army officer. Two Laureano men assumed governorships, more were ticketed for other crucial states. The Liberals in Congress countered with a law allowing citizens to vote anywhere. This would enable Liberals to vote in other towns if run out of their homes in Conservative-bossed villages...
...nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown a net profit. Last year's earnings ($26.5 million) were not enough to meet even half the interest payments on C.N.R.'s longstanding debt-a whopping $1.3 billion...
...international smart set's Lady Mendl, eightyish, tempted the palates of Vogue readers with her own recipes for some dishes that mother never even thought of making, e.g., Kidneys Ali-Bab ("brown one pound of veal kidneys . . . set aflame with a glass of brandy...
Greta Garbo, who has ducked behind floppy hats, napkins and even her own hair to keep out of newscamera lenses, was bested by vigilant photographers on a Manhattan dock as she arrived from France...