Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE. Suddenly he started. The number was two years old; it contained a famous picture of himself, impeccably attired in top hat and morning coat, signing Japan's surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. At that moment, Lieut. Colonel Aubrey Kenworthy, U.S. officer in charge of the prisoners, passed. "Haven't you seen these pictures before?" he asked. Shigemitsu shook his unkempt head, kept turning the pages. Then he muttered: "It's been such a long time...
...Chester Duncan, lecturer in English, told the Winnipeg Poetry Society: "Our well-known Canadian laconicism is not always concealed wisdom, but a kind of dumbness, a frustration, a between-ness. We are continually on the verge of something but we don't quite get there. We haven't discovered what we are or where we're going and therefore we haven't much...
...Pullman Porter Fred Wright, 67, who went to work for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad as a water boy when he was twelve ("I had a can, and went through the cars hollering 'water!' "), was awarded a gold pin for 55 years' service. His favorite car is the Lightning. "I use to talk to that car during the depression when sometimes there wouldn't be a passenger on the whole trip. I'd say: 'Lightning, old girl, we got to do better.' And now we're doing lots better...
...they ready to go? Actually the question did not have to be asked, because Togliatti attacked it himself. He spoke with the disciplined fluency of a man long practised in saying no more and no less than the moment calls for: "We Communists haven't changed our program of reform since we left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating with the government, but by popular pressure. The news is false which the rightist press has been distributing about the date of a revolution." Choosing each word carefully, he concluded: "But one can never, generally...
...epilogue has also been added in which Cornel Wild echoes some earlier lines: "In heaven's name, Amber, haven't we caused enough unhappiness? May God have mercy on us both for our sins...