Word: sent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plush lobbies and corridors, swarthy Albanian colonels conferred importantly with bemedaled Czech generals; Polish officials huddled with thoughtful Hungarians. Vulko Chervenkov, new boss of Bulgaria, walked side by side with Ana Pauker, Stalin's Amazon satrap for Rumania. Over all watched the steady eyes of the Russians sent for the occasion from Moscow. The Cominform was meeting in full conclave. Chief item on the agenda: what to do about Yugoslavia's rebellious Tito...
...driver fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into a streetcar. Adenauer's face was badly injured, still bears scars. While he was still in the hospital, Cologne's mayor died, and a delegation of the city council dropped in to inform Adenauer of the news. "They sent a delegation," Adenauer grins, "because they had heard of my severe head injuries. They wanted to make sure I was still normal." Satisfied that he was, the city council elected him mayor...
...Affricans composed a blunt letter to Don Luciano: "It is with the greatest sorrow that we learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...estimated profit of more than $1,000,000. All the silver had been turned over to a notorious smuggler named Roberto Maese, who moved it across the border to El Paso. Each deal had at least two profitable angles: 1) it evaded the export tax; 2) the bank sent out old-style silver pesos, whose metal value is now higher than the face value, and replaced them in its own accounts with paper money...
...Compiled from questionnaires sent out to 222 Protestant and 50 non-Protestant religious bodies...