Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outwardly Noel was as bright as ever. Some 685,000 found their way to the austerity-ridden country of Dickens and plum pudding, which celebrated heartily this year-even if it still did not eat very heartily. Everywhere people who once would have been too proud to take them last week accepted the gifts from the table of American abundance...
...bright, spots in Berlin was the busy office of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. Last week some 10,000 parcels of food, clothing and other goods from the U.S. poured into CARE's office in the city's Western sector. A white-haired, undernourished piano teacher wept openly as a CARE parcel containing a Christmas turkey was handed to her. "Someone I don't even know," she cried, "a Dr. Cohn of New York, sent this...
...well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from the store counters because she could not afford to pay the high prices for the fine new wares. "Receiving gift from complete stranger," muttered a Japanese artist last week, "teaches biggest lesson of unselfishness...
...which had opposed the U.N. internationalization plan as highhanded and unrealistic, but now warned Israel against an "inflammatory move." The shift of Israel's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had been long and carefully prepared; several government departments had quietly moved to the Holy City months ago. Last week, in his big black Cadillac, the Premier himself motored resolutely to Jerusalem. During his 90-minute drive through settlements along the way, hundreds of Israelis cheered...
...Israel, united in opposing internationalization of the Holy City, might reach an overall peace settlement. "We will shed our blood for Jerusalem," warned a Jordan spokesman. "Let the U.N. take heed." Pointedly, Abdullah was spending each Friday, the Moslem Sabbath, in the Old City. "The U.N.," he said during last week's visit, "does not seem to know the reality of the situation, We oppose the [internationalization] resolution because it is impracticable...