Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountain town of Leninsk-Kuznetski three ambitious agents of the NKVD (Commissariat for Home Affairs) and the acting city prosecutor, unable to fabricate cases against adult victims, took to arresting children for "Fascist terroristic activities." Scores were thrown into bedless, crawling cells along with common criminals and political prisoners. In their reports the purgers concealed the children's ages, passed them off as grown youths. Some of the child victims were shipped off to prisons in other cities, others were kept in Leninsk-Kuznetski and questioned night after night...
...mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...
...story of two lately arrived peon newlyweds, enticed to Manhattan by a scatterbrained female gringo travel writer, Fiesta In Manhattan centres on their bungling efforts to adapt themselves to the cramped, precarious life of the barrio, their worse bungling when Juan tries to raise passage money home by peddling marijuana. Living conditions in the barrio, the natives' desperate shifts to make a living, their political tempers, the quarter's underworld are documented by Author Kaufman from firsthand study...
...Dutch colony at Deshima) to live in Japan since the expulsion of the Catholic missionaries in 1638, Harris had no battleships to back him. The State Department left him to shift for himself. The Japanese distinctly did not want him around, Commodore Perry notwithstanding. They asked him to go home on the ship he came on. When he refused, they set a cheeky guard around his miserable house, prohibited his traveling more than seven miles from the dismal fishing village of Shimoda, gave him diseased chickens to eat, picked on his Chinese servants while refusing to let Japanese work...
Jenny's problems stem from the fact that last year she got married. The costs of starting a new home were tremendous and Jenny needed every cent she could get her hands on. But she was unable to touch the money which had been stored up in her. Annuity unless she left Harvard's employ and she couldn't afford to lose her job. The $50 in her Annuity were a frozen asset and she and her husband "just had to do without...