Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half miles in Main West. Fourteen men, the last of No. 5's day shift, lay face down on the tunnel floor.They had not been killed outright. But, being miners, they had known that help would never reach them in time and each had left a note...
...scrawled: "It looks like the end for me. I love you honey more than life itself. You are the sweetest wife in the world. Goodbye, Honey and Dickey." Another note was addressed to two boys: "Be good boys. Please your father. O Lord help me." Some had been jotted down at intervals: "I am fine at 5:30-is in bad shape, going on and moaning. Tell- I forgive her. Everyone going." Another read: "My dear wife: Goodbye. Name the baby Joe so you will have a Joe. Love...
...though the Soviet Union is trying to sell the same horse twice." Replied Molotov: "We did not approach this problem of reparations from a point of view of merchants, but we do not want other merchants selling our horse at a low price without our consent." (The strong equine note in the discussion reminded observers of an old Russian proverb which applied to the Ministers' quadripartite steeplechase: "Even with four legs, a horse can stumble...
Frank Sinatra prepared to get out of a rut with a majestic leap. In Hollywood's The Miracle of the Bells he would play a priest, and not sing a note...
...freedom with a wisecrack: "Russian hospitality has seen to it that Moscow is cleaned up like a Dutch kitchen-or as some cynics say, like a Potemkin village."* The censor just waved the copy by. As an added coal of fire, the censor got off an enthusiastic note to the Gannett papers' Cecil Dickson, congratulating him on his fine story about Stalin at the opera...