Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to work on the case. A citizens' committee was organized and elected Bourbon County's Lawyer Cassius M. Clay* as its chairman. Several county grand juries investigated the case but took no action. As time dragged on it began to look as though the mystery might never be solved...
Judge Medina agreed wholeheartedly: "There is the issue in the case. You and the other defendants here say: 'This was all a perfectly innocent thing. We never advocated or taught . . . overthrow of the Government by force or violence at all. All we wanted to do was to bring about certain salutary social reforms, and to do it by a perfectly legitimate party . . . ' That, as I see it, goes right to the heart of the matter...
...almost unnoticed demonstration of the perishability of men's dreams. The building had been put up as a "phalanstery" or communal living quarters for the North American Phalanx-one of the most successful of all the Socialist colonies which bloomed across the U.S. in the 19th Century. Never as well known as New England's famed Brook Farm, the Phalanx had lasted twice as long and prospered wonderfully. In its heyday, Horace Greeley, Charles Dana and Albert Brisbane (father of the late Arthur Brisbane) were all its ardent advocates...
...climbed down. Now I hope they'll disappear from our midst." But everyone realized that the battle for the city would continue. East Berlin's Communist Party called for conferences to end the split in the city government. To this, Ernst Reuter retorted: "Work with those people-never...
...tiny potato patch in the Tiergarten pointed to one of the huge, blasted air raid shelters. He said: 'During the war every bunker in Berlin had the words painted near its entrance: Ruhe bewahren, nicht drängen!-keep quiet, don't push. Those words we shall never forget. They have served us well during this blockade.' "If ever there are monuments raised to commemorate democracy's victory in the battle of Berlin, there are plenty of heroes to adorn them. In their weary, often grumbling and fumbling way, it was Berlin's plain people...