Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deeply hurt because the U.S. had cut off Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin was ready to be friends again if the U.S. 1) abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with Russia and sparked it off with a $2 billion loan...
...sleepy old town of Moyobamba, in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, men, women & children turned out to cheer; with 17 soldiers and four civilians, Lieut. Colonel Juan Heysen was setting out to find the fabled Angayza mountain. To Peruvians familiar with the legends of Angayza, this was "Operation El Dorado...
...After four years of Soviet captivity, shabby, 61-year-old Erika Raeder, wife of Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (now serving a life term for war crimes), turned up in Berlin and unburdened herself to newsmen. The enigmatic Russians had fed her caviar in Moscow, starved her in Minsk, kept her peeling potatoes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Then, just as unaccountably, they...
...native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
...about $25,000. His pretense of laziness is an affectation. He is full of hustle and hates to lose a close game. Once, after the Sox lost a 1-to-0 heartbreaker, Luke brooded through his dinner and threw it up afterward. This year he has been evicted from four games for arguing too strenuously with umpires...