Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another textile man who has looked like a genius during the boom, Joe Axelrod's real test will come with the return of cutthroat competition when the boom ends. He thinks his company is solid enough to withstand the shock. Last year, on gross sales of $37 million, net profits were some $5.5 million...
...Germans . . . swept out their mess halls, polished their boots, cleaned their bicycles. . . ." And then there were the prisoners who obeyed Vichy orders to collaborate, and were given preferential treatment. For them Ambrière reserves his deepest scorn, remembering how, when they crossed the Rhine on the return trip to France, "with languid fingers they removed the Fascist symbol they had been wearing since 1941 and pinned the cross of Lorraine in its place...
...Britain, where he had gone to sign the treaty, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr hopefully remarked that "during our temporary absence, some destructive elements in the country . . . exploited some innocent students and succeeded in creating disorders. On our return to Iraq we shall explain the ... treaty to Parliament and people...
...certain Fukien forest. There it met an old woman weeping beside a grave. She said: 'My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate.' Confucius asked why she didn't return to her village instead of living in so dangerous a place. The old woman wailed: 'I am a refugee from the Communists. Here there are tigers but no oppressive government...
What does the future hold for Berg's five? A return match with the Brulns, redecorated with Hillhouse stars, games with Dartmouth and Yale, and a loudly heralded out-of-season encounter with the Crimson Jayvees look like the tough ones...