Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain road in black limousines rode Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and five members of his day-old Cabinet. A guard of honor of ten U.S., ten British, ten French soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help...
Consolation In Mecca. Meanwhile, along Marco Polo's ancient silk trail, a Red army pressed westward from captured Lanchow, toward the important Yumen oilfields, and the Sinkiang oases. Some 40,000 hard-riding but weakly armed Moslem horsemen were the only barrier...
...little village of St. Sylvestre de Lotbiniére, 40 miles south of Quebec City, people found it hard to agree on the miracles reported at the Bélanger home. Week after week they had seen cars, many of them from the U.S., drive down the village's gravel road and stop before the Bélangers' whitewashed house. The visitors were given numbered tickets and ushered into a small, cluttered room. In the center was a round table, in one corner a twelve-inch statue of the Holy Virgin, in another an assortment of canes...
...Rossellini. To Hearst's Hollywood Gossipist Louella Parsons, McDonald confided that Ingrid was ready to give Husband Peter half their community property in exchange for a divorce, and to put the other half in a trust for Pia, their eleven-year-old daughter. "She has no hard feelings toward him," McDonald reported. "She feels as a daughter would toward a father, but says she has never been in love in her life until she met Rossellini. . . Miss Bergman has done everything to avoid bitterness but she was deeply hurt when Dr. Lindstrom tried to send a psychiatrist to examine...
...European of 1500, the sickness of the church might have been hard to perceive. Father Lortz points out that the church then seemed to be at the pinnacle of its strength. But, he writes, while "the facades were still standing," there was no longer "always life in the structures . . . Religious impotence was most unmistakable in the case of the higher clergy . . . Nor may we forget what a devastating effect such weaknesses . . . necessarily exert on the life of the whole community...