Word: longing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand," said a Berlin journalist, "that America won't waste planes as long as trains run into Berlin. But aren't you going to do anything with Berlin now that...
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...Ever since the end of World War II the situation on the Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le Locle came the stationmaster's voice, cold and hollow. "French fleas," it said, "are infiltrating our border in the clothing of French railroad workers. It is a veritable invasion...
Jobs for Tag Stickers. Over Berlin's ruins the ivy still grows, but long stretches of the city's streets have been cleared. Street-corner lawns that had been stomped into shabbiness flourish again. Under the grey frown of gutted facades on the Kurfűrstendamm are rows of fancy-front, one-story shops...
...High on a bamboo scaffolding, pudgy, white-haired August Ferdinand Schmiedigen, 66-year-old boss architect of Haiti's International Exposition, dangled a stone on the end of a long string. Then, having shown his sweating black masons that their wall was not plumb, he hopped down to take a rest. "I've never worked so hard in my life," he gasped...