Word: lished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like those in the U.S., European hostels were generally plain places, where young people could sleep for about 25? a night. The Americans worked without pay; in fact, it cost them $600 apiece to make the trip. In Europe they teamed up with Eng lish hostelers, formed work groups, and fanned out into Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It was the first time U.S. and European hostelers had gotten together since...
...monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...Lish reports that he still needs a little more heavy rope for some "lashing down" in his new home. Interesting details on the subject will be furnished on presentation of a suitable length of rope...
...wiry, sharp-eyed and swathed in a black cape with a ragged fur collar. The son reached into a pocket and brought out the dog tags-thin oval bits of metal in leather cases. The five men were proud of the trophies. Their story tumbled out in pidgin Eng lish learned 15 years ago when they worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...