Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space. Most refugees are herded into dirty, former Nazi camps, like the one at Dortmund which townspeople ironically call "Sing Sing...
Partly Whipped Cream. Most West Germans live only about half as well as they did in 1936; most refugees live half as well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...
...presidential preview, Harry Truman had dropped in and sounded a happy blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth...
...three sinners are a coward, a lesbian, and a nymphomaniacal infanticide. It's a rich enough combination for any dramatist to work with, and Mr. Sartre, fortunately, does not exploit the sensational aspects of his characters. In fact, the three people are not in Hell for being a coward, a Lesbian, or a nymphomaniac...
Those who felt they had profited intellectually in college said they had "learned to think critically," acquired "intellectual curiosity," "a thirst for knowledge," and "a rich background of information...