Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with me and the next morning he knew nothing...
Those who could followed the government's lead. Nanking's exits were choked day & night by streams of carts and automobiles heading for open country. Chinese riverboat captains no longer even dared let down their gangplanks at Nanking. From a safe distance offshore, they threw ropes to as many passengers as they could haul aboard. After the sinking of the overloaded SS Kiangya (see below), the military finally stepped in and took over all transportation facilities...
...open hatch of one plane, a man climbing up the ladder was blocked by another soldier. They wrestled at the hatch, lost their footing and thumped heavily to the ground. A C.N.A.C. ground crewman, a tall youngster in a black cap, screamed at the soldiers: "Stop! Stop! You are mad!" An angry red crawled up the taut vocal cords in his neck. "You are a disgrace, a disgrace to China!" Heedless, the soldiers stepped over their comrades still pummeling each other on the ground and jammed into the plane...
Last week, with the 29-day court investigation completed, most details of the conspiracy were out in the open. Ibañez had been the front man, Vergara the boss. The plotters had relied on three discontented groups: underpaid noncoms, impatient junior officers and out-of-power conservative politicos. The aim was to set up a military dictatorship...
...ministers pledged themselves to continue the policies of their predecessors-only more "moderately." Union leaders (almost all now released from jail) and other Acción members declared that they would form an open opposition to the Junta as soon as constitutional guarantees were restored. Said a spokesman for Junta President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud: "Democratic elections will take place. But right now the new government is busy trying ... to put everything on an efficient administrative basis, and above all to establish an atmosphere of tolerance before the elections." As the first step toward those elections, the Junta dissolved the national...