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...they had made a statistical success of forced collectivization but the result was a fall in production and a shortage of food. The traditional granary of central Europe was on short rations and forced to import grain. Workers grumbled over low wages and the lack of consumer goods; peasants hid their produce...
...rifleman hid in the thicket...
...count me present." "Czar" Reed shot back with devastating logic, "The Chair simply stated the fact that the gentleman from Kentucky appears to be present. Does he deny it?" With that, members bolted for the doors. Reed ordered the doors locked. Pandemonium gripped the House of Representatives as members hid under desks, shouted curses at Reed and beat down the doors. But Reed had his quorum, and he kept a tight control of the House...
Inside Information. In Kansas City, Mo., when police wondered why X. L. Rogers hid the $230 he was charged with stealing in his right shoe. Rogers explained: "I was afraid of being robbed...
Sacred Ponds. In India, which the shadow reached just before sundown, came a kind of climax. For hours before the eclipse, orthodox Hindus had fasted, lest the food in their stomachs be polluted before it could be digested. Pregnant women hid in dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra and Sanyahet, near Delhi, waited 500,000 pilgrims who believed that during a solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly...