Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again last week, as it had every year since 1911, Sweden's Taxeringskalender was proving a boon to the boastful, a murrain to the miserly and a surefire smash in the bookstalls. The book-a privately published almanac which meticulously lists the annual earnings of every Swede, except...
All the other children, the crew and three nurses, were dead. Miraculously, Isaac had suffered little more than a black eye and a sprained arm. The child smiled at the lumberjack and said in halting French: "I have come here to go to school. Take me to the school."
Arnulfo had slept through Remón's first coup, then had been jailed for a few hours when he went downtown to find out what was going on. But this time he was more than ready. Quickly summoned crowds rushed to the Presidencia and roared approval as Remón...
Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind...
The eye-opening process began when his board started interviewing candidates for the superintendency. Most of the candidates, he found, were "more interested in soap, towels, bathrooms, ventilation, and machines for waxing floors than they were in basic subjects." When they did speak about education, "they were all stamped out...