Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the defendants quailed; one or two were so old and infirm that they hardly seemed to know what was happening. When quiet, grey ex-Premier Koki Hirota heard his death sentence, he closed his eyes, then turned to look at his weeping family in the gallery. It was the last time he would see them. Japanese newsmen, who had not expected death for Hirota, murmured: "Hidoi! Hidoi!" (harsh, harsh...
...Paix. "Well," said the latter in a strong Russian accent, "how are things with you? Have you been getting enough to eat?" "Oh, things are picking up a bit in England," said the bulldog, "but we've had rather a bad time of it, y'know. Rations and so forth." "Oh, yes," said the poodle, "and here we're not much better off. Why, during the occupation I got almost nothing to eat but boiled turnips and chopped garlic. Now I get a little meat but things are still bad. How are they in Russia...
...huffed a police sergeant at the palace gates, "there's nothing to see 'ere. Nobody need wait who don't know what 'e's waitin' for. Step along now. Step along." All around him the milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
Marcel Cachin, all smiles, bowed out the correspondents. With his farewell handshake he said: "It was really a great pleasure to have you here. I know we are all working for peace, in France and the world...
...been solvent for only two or three years, but now they buy my pictures as an investment. It's grotesque. I even have to sell my stuff on installments so the Government won't get all the money. That's legal, you know. A Virginia fellow saw a reproduction of a picture of mine and he bought it on the phone for $10,000. But I'm quittin' anyway. Of course I'm gonna paint, but I'm not gonna let the dealers push me around any more...