Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melting snows poured fresh torrents into the valleys, sent new flood peaks surging down on the Columbia's lowlands. Nearly 48,000 were homeless in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Red Cross estimated that it would be two months before those whose homes had not been destroyed could return. Over all the stricken Northwest, 26 had lost their lives...
...before. There was a reason for that: this was his second leavetaking. When the Nazis had forced him out, he had said: "For all our citizens I wish better times in the future, both for them and for our beautiful country." But this time he did not expect to return...
After the Houses were built, the Class Day activities gravitated toward the river and the concert was held in the House triangle. The return to the Tercentenary theatre this year will provide enough space to enable Cantabrigians to hear the music without buying tickets...
...will soon return to Italy to make a movie for Britain's Sir Alexander Korda -based on Luigi Pirandello's difficult Henry IV. Says Welles: "So much first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...
...trip disillusioned Gide. Even before his Russian junket he had said: "The climate in the writings of Karl Marx is suffocating to me. There is something lacking, I don't know what kind of ozone indispensable to my mental respiration." Gide's Return from the U.S.S.R. (his first bestseller, at 67) astounded and infuriated the Communists. He wrote: "I doubt whether in any other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed...