Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankfurt, one operator, wearily toting his worn leather briefcase, which is the money dealer's badge of badge of office, mourned: "Der Schwarzmarkt ist kaputt." In Paris, a fellow sufferer announced that he would have to "go into the picture business," i.e., peddle French postcards. "Not much money in that trade," he complained, "but we have to make a living...
...Generalissimo listened politely, but he refused to let go the cash. If Li surrendered to the Communists, it would be lost. If Li meant to fight on for "honorable peace," it would always be handy...
...Israelis pointed out that their constitution already guarantees free access to holy places (however, "subject to the requirements of national security, public order and decorum"). As for internationalization, that was flatly out as far as Israel was concerned. It would rather go to war again than relinquish the City of the Temple, its strongest national symbol. "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem," Israelis read grimly from the 137th Psalm, "let my right hand forget her cunning . . ." The Jews were not forgetting...
...Ararat, the 16,946-ft. peak which straddles Turkey and Persia at the border of Soviet Armenia. Recently he announced his intention of leading an expedition there in June. Dean Aaron J. Smith of North Carolina's People's Bible College, another enthusiastic amateur, said he would go along. "It's not necessarily the Ark we hope to find," explained Sykes, "but any ship up there that can be keyed in with the dates of the biblical deluge will give more credence to the Old Testament, and I should be happy to do that...
...democracy, statesmen go on vacation, break a leg, get the flu and even retire or die without creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...