Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went where I wanted. The two Russians - there are always two Russians - scratched their heads like they did back at Helsinki. They questioned me for two hours but I gave them straight answers. They finally said, 'We'll take you to the hotel in Moscow. They can find out what it's all about...
Though the government set up a commission to investigate the find, hardly anyone doubted its authenticity. The Bank of Mexico's research laboratories announced that the documents which led to the unearthing of Cuauhtemoc's bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature on them appeared genuine. Leading archaeologists agreed. Crowds of tourists began to make the five-hour trip over rock-strewn roads from Taxco to the Ixcateopan church, where they goggled at a few shoe boxes full of bone fragments and the copper disc found under the altar bearing the inscription...
...until after Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890 did the world begin to find out what he was pursuing. In ten years of agony, bliss and hard labor, he had poured out some 900 drawings and 800 paintings, written hundreds of letters. Self-expression was all he cared about, and the self he expressed was so affectionate, violent and wide open to the world around him that the circle of his admirers has broadened with each generation...
After last week's spill, many a U.S. horse player who bet on nothing but Glisson's mounts had to find a new system temporarily. Their blue-eyed boy, who was earning around $50,000 a year before he was old enough to shave regularly, was out of business for a few weeks with a broken collarbone...
...There must be countless other citizens who feel as we do, guilty before God simply because we have been citizens of a city where a boy could be stabbed to death because of the color of his skin. May God forgive us all and give us courage to find and follow a better...