Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That morning Helms and a few other foreign correspondents had watched from the stands as Hitler marched to somber, rolling drums through 200,000 uniformed followers. "The wonder of this age is that you have found me -- an unknown man among millions!" Hitler shouted.
Just as suddenly Hitler subsided. He stepped to the parapet and waved to a few below who were shouting, "We want to see our Fuhrer!" Then the group went to lunch, Hitler surrounded by party members. He dined quickly and lightly. Helms recalls noting that the Fuhrer's favorite chocolates...
A White House aide rarely gets to write his own job description, but that's what Roger Porter did back in 1980. While teaching government at Harvard, Porter wrote Presidential Decision Making, a book describing a system in which the President designates "honest brokers." These senior aides, unlike Cabinet officers...
Delaware Bay's prime breeding beaches are also a burial ground. Thousands of the crabs lie dead, overturned by breaking waves, their hollow shells littering the sand like the discarded helmets of a defeated German battalion. Just yards away, oblivious to the noxious stench of rotting crabs, migratory shorebirds feast...
Dave Welsh knows. He's down at Reed's Beach, fishing with his father. For the umpteenth time since he worked these waters as a boy, Welsh, now 42, curses and starts reeling in his line. Nothing biting today except the horseshoe crab. Agitated, he untangles one from his line...