Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1775 an angry American General, George Washington, wrote of a large section of the American people: "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another ... I never saw before and pray God I may never be witness to again. . . . Such a dirty mercenary spirit pervades the whole that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen...
...Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running low...
...mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
Berlin caught another dreadful week. Four nights the heavy bombers of the R.A.F. visited the doomed city. Lowest tonnage in a single night, 1,210; highest, 2,400. Weather and artful feinting by the raiders thwarted the defenses; British losses were low...
...laughed, and began a matter-of-fact, apparently inconsequential story about all the tangled family feuds, murders, suicides, money troubles, duels, wickedness, misery. When Victoria asked him about all the Negroes with family resemblances to the Grandolets, he silenced her with a look so black and a voice so low and level that she was drenched with fear. When they decided to have a child, Victoria was conscious of an odd chilliness crawling slowly over her skin, suddenly realized: "She had never liked to be touched by anyone. . . . She did not love Niles Grandolet. . . ." After their son was born, Niles...