Word: notted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The brown, heavily stamped parcels also went behind the Iron Curtain, to Czechoslovakia and Poland, where the Communist authorities officially declared that such gifts from America were unnecessary, and had so intimidated their recipients that many sent the parcels back unopened. Some 66,000 of the parcels went to Austria...
Across the broad, rich land, people also wrapped and sealed their own packages for relatives in the Old Country, or for old acquaintances from old vacation trips, or for strangers whose names they had got by chance. A portly gentleman on Boston's Beacon Hill sent off a consignment...
"It Teaches Lesson." The gift parcels from people like the Pierces, which for weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world...
The U.S. was not loved-and would never be loved-for being the world's richest land; but it did earn genuine gratitude. Under overall sponsorship of the Church World Service, Inc., children of 19 countries have labored to draw and paint Christmas cards thanking the U.S. for its...
Other officials followed him. This week the Knesset held its first session in the Jewish Agency building of Jerusalem's New City. Most of the government started functioning in Jerusalem. But shrewd Ben-Gurion left his Foreign Ministry behind in Tel Aviv, sparing foreign diplomatic missions the embarrassment of...