Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppose so," she answered. "I know some Russians. He might have been a friend of some of them." Then she hurried into her house...
Timid, red-nosed Grigor Moisil, Rumanian ambassador to Turkey, may have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that...
...Greek officer, who told this story of a guerrilla chieftain named Ypsilantis: "Last year 400 of Ypsilantis' band of 720 surrendered to me. By combat we reduced the remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent me a message that Ypsilantis was waiting for 500 soldiers trained...
There was a time some twelve years ago when Faith's only friend in all the world was Henry Ross, rector of St. Augustine's. Three times his own verger had turned away the cat that wandered unannounced from the turmoil of Watling Street to make her home in his church. At the fourth try the rector interceded. "The cat must stay," he said. "She has chosen our church, and she must remain." Faith took up residence in his rectory. Years of halcyon days followed when Faith would recline in proprietary ease in St. Augustine's carpeted...
...Geneva last week, ailing and half blind at 74, he handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to Israel to assume the citizenship (and the presidency) of the Jewish state which he, more than any one man, had helped make a reality. Said he as he landed: "It is good to be home at last...