Word: reads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Careful Now." To the Bundestag next day, Adenauer read the Allies' communique. He passed lightly over the 23.8? decision with the remark that it did not do justice to the "rightful interests of the German economy." He also passed over the anti-dumping clause and the freezing of the price of export coal. But when he came to inland coal, he was sure and stern: ". . . The price of coal would have to be increased 25% ... We will under no circumstances adopt this measure. I say this explicitly in the name of the federal government, so that any unrest...
Guilty Husband. France has taught many Indo-Chinese to read (they have one of Asia's highest literacy rates-40%), but it did not teach them how to rule themselves. Viet Nam has many ambitious politicians with loose personal followings. The most remarkable of these is perky little Ho Phap, self-styled pope of Caodaism, a faith (founded by him in 1926) which combines belief in everything from Confucianism to Christianity. Ho Phap, who claims 2,000,000 disciples, has a private army of 20,000 which provides Bao Dai's personal guard and bitterly fights the Communists...
Hadn't she made a pro-Communist speech on the ship? "No, this must all be a mistake." Had she ever read Karl Marx? "No, never." Had she read Lenin? "No, no." There were more questions, including one about how she had voted in the last election. Then she was whisked off to Ellis Island. Twenty-four hours later, after Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong had protested to the U.S. State Department, she was released...
...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping himself in its character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam...