Word: haven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monumental piece of imbecility and iniquity...We are going to celebrate 50 years of the most abominable misgovernment by having an exhibition and festival at the expense of U.S. money...We are broke-underline that three times. The country has gone potty. We have no moral sense left. I haven't much myself...
Omaha, a city with a "welcome stranger" past, has been good to displaced persons. When a slight, sad-eyed Yugoslav named Eugene Stefan got there this summer with his grown-up daughter Heddy, he felt that he had found a haven at last. World War II had made him a wanderer; his wife had died of hardship, his mother had died in a concentration camp and his sister had disappeared. Afterward, Tito's government had refused him the right to go home to Yugoslavia...
...sense, the papers had been on their way to New Haven for 23 years, ever since Ralph H. Isham (Yale '14) first heard of them. One batch had been uncovered in Ireland's Malahide Castle in 1927, another in Scotland. Isham bought the Malahide papers, and after years of dickering acquired the rest. Scholars hailed them as the greatest literary find of the century...
...Riviera, where he was lounging about in soiled white shorts, with his barrel chest a magnificent brown, Picasso left off playing with his son long enough to deny that he was being domesticated. Grumbled Papa Picasso: "My painting hasn't changed, my subjects haven't changed. If I happen to paint a little girl it is because she happens to be at hand. If a piece of wood were at hand I would paint...
...imperialists-with only 16 million inhabitants?" asked Juan Perón last week in mock amazement. "We haven't gone crazy yet," he added. Argentina's President was assuring a group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...