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Energy from Hope. Amid the ruins of Kiev, they found German prisoners helping clear up the rubble. "One of the few justices in the world," wrote Steinbeck. "And the Ukrainian people do not look at them. They turn away. . . ." At the museum there were crowds staring wistfully at plaster models of the future Kiev. "In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year . . . the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took energy from hope...." In the fields around shell-pocked Shevchenko, they found cheerful bands of women...
Chief damage caused by small eastern earthquakes, aside from a little falling plaster, is the disalignment of precision instruments...
According to Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove...
...present, Clipson is trying to get into large-scale production while fighting off eager customers. Britons hope that his super-plaster, which permits builders to cut all sorts of corners, will boost the government's lagging housing program. In due course, non-Britons may stand in line for exports or patent licenses...
University employees, armed with flashlights, gathered in the darkened stairwell to trace burnt out electrical fixtures and sadly contemplate plaster falling from the hallway ceilings. They vowed that University officials would uncover the culprit or take disciplinary action against the whole entry...