Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the countries, the bulk of the land was in large estates. The owners, generally absentees, paid little attention to the food needs of their peons, or of the nation as a whole. Much good land lay idle, held for speculation. Land taxes were nonexistent, or too low to force the owners to cultivate their acres efficiently...
Columnist Joe Hatcher "has a low, filthy, diseased mind-lies by nature. . . . He is full of ululation...
...tall girl with dark brown braids and a mezzo-soprano voice stepped out on the Metropolitan Opera's gilt-framed stage for the first time. Making her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre, Blanche Thebom (pronounced thee-bum), 25, threw Manhattan's normally low-pressure music critics into fits of excitement: "Remarkable! ... a natural . . . strikingly handsome . . . exceptional vocal endowments...
...they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging clouds and burst in sprays of red-hot fragments. On a 140-mile front, north & south of the Küstrin-Frankfurt sector, Zhukov kept the skies alight with his massed artillery as he fought to reach the Oder...
...fire on the hearth burned low. The atmosphere in the room grew chilly. The talks were adjourned...