Word: lindens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings might well have called her latest novel "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Her farmer hero, Ase Linden, is a rawboned, ungainly man of probity without a mean bone in his 6 ft. 4 in. body. Born in a log cabin in the 18605, Ase dies in the age of flight, but his sad saga never gets off the ground...
...Nazi party. 20 percent decided that they would be against it, 13 percent came out definitely in favor of it. 23 percent just didn't care, 14 percent expressed no opinion, and 30 percent said that they were not particularly auxions to see black shirts reappear on Unter der Linden, but that they would do nothing to prevent...
...holes have been dug between Linden and Holyoke Streets, most of them in front of Claverly Hall. The workmen are tightening joints on a 24 inch gas pipe, which sprung a leak several weeks ago and began to disturb residents of Claverly. A minute trickle of gas was escaping from the feed line into the basement of the dormitory through a conduit...
...Somerville. They tie perfume bottles on the pigs, but the average farmer can't afford such luxury." Furthermore, said Krajewski, it wasn't just Secaucus and it wasn't just pigs. The industrial areas near the Pulaski Skyway, he said, smell like embalming fluid: "Linden has assorted smells from paint and oil... There are chemical and acid smells, and Kopper's coke with its terrible smoke. Out in Manville, there is the asbestos smell . . . And in Newark, you should smell the markets in the morning. No one complains about them...
...this stratagem, the Communist authorities came into possession of a taxi with West-sector markings and plates, which would attract no attention anywhere in free Berlin. Shortly after the fake pounce on the "cigarette racketeer," the taxi recrossed into the U.S. sector and stopped on the Gerichtstrasse, a quiet, linden-shaded street in a shabbily genteel neighborhood. The hour was still early. Punctually at 7:20, Dr. Walter Linse, 48, economic expert and No. 2 man of the Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, emerged from No. 12 Gerichtstrasse, on his way to work, and started briskly toward the El station...