Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Female Heart. She spoke clearly and calmly, in a Brooklyn accent. She was not a Communist, not a spy-simply a victim of that Victorian malady, unhappy platonic love. She had first met the Russian, Gubichev, on Labor Day weekend, 1948, in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. They found themselves eyeing the same cubist painting, had begun criticizing it and then had wandered on through the gallery together...
Wearily, an hour and a half after saying goodbye to each other, the Ministers met again. The Russians wanted to clarify a point in the Austrian agreement. Vishinsky eventually agreed to take up the matter later through regular diplomatic channels...
...Tirana, the tubby little ex-tinker Koci Xoxe met the ultimate end of all unregenerate purgees. Once the general secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, Xoxe was shot by a firing squad of the same secret police he had once organized. Also convicted of being "plotters against popular democracy," three other pro-Tito Albanians got stiff prison terms...
Back in 1879, 27 young Cambridge ladies met at 6 Appian Way, one September day, opened their books, and the first class of "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women" got under...
Ideologically, Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia have no quarrel; they are alike as three blackjacks. But war has turned out to be the simplest way of convincing the masses that their countries and their lives are in a state of emergency, which can only be met if all thought, as well as all government, is subject to absolute dictatorship. Hence the three great slogans that Oceania's wretched citizens read and hear every hour of their lives...