Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's policy in the face of these gambits was slowly crystallizing. The West would never agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...
...Never Knows. For years, department-store credit managers, income-tax investigators and the parents of the girl engaged to the young man upstairs have come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received at rent-collecting time, at New Year's and for special services. Even the Paris police call on her for information. During the war the Resistance used the concierge as a perfectly positioned spy. Allied airmen shot down over France were passed safely across Paris from one concierge to another...
...times, La Pipelette must be circumspect. In Paris at present there are three unions of concierges, one Catholic, one Communist, one in the center (Force Ouvrière). A quarter of Parisian concierges are members of all three, for "after all, Monsieur, one never knows how it may all turn...
Princess Elizabeth, 23, appointed a new lady-in-waiting to fill a vacancy caused by illness. Among the neophyte's traditional duties: handling the royal purse (British Princesses never carry cash...
...Good Run. In the paddock before the race, Jockey Brooks, who had never ridden Ponder, got a fill-in on his mount. Said Jones: "I don't think he'll win, but he'll beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...