Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maurice Thorez. He started at the bottom. Son and grandson of a miner, he was born in 1900 at Noyelle-Godault in the Pas-de-Calais. "My earliest memory is of a mining accident, of plain white wooden coffins placed in neat rows on the floor of the shed. I remember men, women & children running in all directions, colliding, pushing, returning to where they started, and sweating gendarmes guarding the pit gates against the shrieking, weeping, hysterical crowd which knew that hundreds of its menfolk were condemned to slow death, entombed beneath the earth...
...passing through the beaten country of his onetime conquerors. Only the day before, another king had sailed out of the same harbor, bound for voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
Famine is not always quickly seen. In cold, rainy weather, padded black rags hide the scrawny arms and swollen bellies of China's hungry. It takes hot days when thousands shed their rags to see the effects of slow mass starvation. In villages like Chi Ho, a shady brown clump of mud. brick farmhouses twelve miles from dusty Hengyang, you see the famine. Two months ago, when there was still rice, Chi Ho had 140 inhabitants; now it has 80, the remainder having died or gone off to the city...
Last week, at Gus Kuester's, that battle was in full swing and its center was the farrowing shed. For food comes off Gus Kuester's farm on four trotters and squealing like a buzz saw. Poland China and Spotted Poland China hogs are the crop to which his whole farm economy is geared. The acres of corn, the acres of oats, the acres of hay exist chiefly to cram the maws of pigs and finish about 200 hogs a year as efficiently (that is, as quickly and cheaply) as possible to meet the exigencies of marketing...
...Louis' current band of unknowns is led by Saxophonist Joe Garland, composer of Leap Frog and In the Mood. They alternate with a white band from 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Between shows, Louis bounces through the restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys to play...