Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slowly over the years, hard-working Malcolm White had lifted himself up from edge-of-hunger poverty to affluence. A longtime salesman, he started a small electric-wire factory in an abandoned schoolhouse 15 years ago, built it up into a prosperous firm, Chester Cable Corp., making wires, plastic cable sheathing, and lately, hula hoops. With 140 workers, Chester Cable was the biggest employer in Chester. N.Y. (pop. 1,200). 62 miles north of New York City. Grey and frail-looking, White. 48, lived with his wife and 16-month-old son in a handsome house with a fine view...
...townspeople of Chester were stunned by the news. "Mr. White," said a filling-station operator, "was the nicest man who ever moved here. But they do say you shouldn't take a life." It was hard to decide who was the real victim -Dugan or White...
With only $96,000 worth of insurance, hard-up Osage reckoned its damage at upwards of $250,000. Said Councilman Toka: "It's sickening...
Italian troops, Monty wrote, were "unreliable when it came to hard fighting"; they "surrendered in droves, headed by the generals carrying their suitcases." Of Italy's midwar switch from the Axis to the Allies: "This looked like the biggest double-cross in history." Italian morale, Monty added, was very low, and "that army would not face up to the Germans...
...regime, the festivities proved that he was personally popular, and admired more than ever now for having shown the quality of luck. Had he been killed over Syria, however, Jordan might now be plunged into revolution, and the Middle East into war. This knowledge kept everyone from laughing too hard at the great snafu...