Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less revolutionary-looking crowd ever assembled under Red banners. Watching the listless demonstrators, one could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea where...
...Princess was very fond. Prince Henry was far more tolerant than Wilhelmina. Once, Juliana was secretly smoking with several ladies-in-waiting when the door was thrown open imperiously. Aghast, the girls expected to see Wilhelmina. But when it turned out to be Juliana's father, she ran to embrace him, crying: "It's only Mecklenburg...
...have to bring books to the reader," Jacobs told his staff. He began advertising the library in the papers, ran a steady list of new books. He organized his own Great Books program among doctors and teachers, lawyers and labor unions, talked factories into setting aside space for lunchtime reading. He bought two bookmobiles to roam the city five days a week, delivering books to the back districts of town. He started after the schoolkids, lecturing in classrooms, talking to teachers, enrolling the kids in a special summer reading program. Often, he found, the kids got their parents into...
...himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half length of him. But when we came alongside, he took one look and ran away from us. He's just too much horse...
Elephants for a Fee. It was by hunting that Pretorius made his living and his legendary reputation. His lifetime bag for elephants alone was 557; and after one six-month safari his take for ivory was worth ?3,600. Once when hundreds of rogue elephants ran wild in Cape Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush...