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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found a village of 2,000 people virtually deserted. Three weeks ago the streets were full of children, pigs, chickens and ducks. Now the pigs snort angrily in their concrete pens, the chickens scatter hysterically at the slightest noise, but the villagers are gone from dawn to darkness in search of safer places...
...unforgiving police doggedly continued their investigation, discovered that more than a year ago Kilb acquired a Mercedes 190 SL sports car and, after it had been damaged in an accident, the Daimler-Benz Co. replaced it with a sky-blue Mercedes 220 S cabriolet. What even the most dogged search failed to uncover was any evidence that Bureaucrat Kilb had paid Daimler-Benz so much as a pfennig for either...
...Another search of the record revealed the first inning had topped the old high of six runs, scored by the 1912 Giants against Boston. The high for any inning still is the ten scored by the Philadelphia A's against the Chicago Cubs...
...Southern accent immediately conjures thoughts of provincialism. Indeed, upon coming to Harvard the Southern student himself--in some early search for companionship--tends to seek affinity with students from his own region...
Voyou & Voyant. Novelist Ullman takes up Claude's life when, at 15, the boy begins the first of his vagabond journeys, part flight, part search, that never lead him to a permanent dwelling place, never free him completely from a grim, autocratic mother. Claude is small and soft-bodied, physically still a child but already, thanks to an understanding teacher, a fast-maturing poet. He stows away on a train to Paris. Drunk with wonder, he prowls this incandescent city, perches on curbstones to scribble his poems. He sleeps on pavements and swipes food from the markets. Caught...