Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour after hour, day after day, men hunted in the wreckage for bodies. Effingham's business all but ceased. At the morgue, men & women moved with a stunned matter-of-factness-one woman, looking for her baby, stared at a small, charred body and said, "No, he was smaller" in the same tone she might have used if she were shopping. The funerals went on for days...
Later, he bought the Jonker diamond, recognized as the world's fourth biggest uncut stone † ; and the President Vargas, third biggest, and Venezuela's smaller Libertador. He paid $2,100,000 for the three, cut them into 45 smaller stones and sold the lot for nearly...
This constitution is supposed to come from the German people themselves, according to an agreement made last June. 65 German politicians (representing the Social Democratic, Christian, Democratic and smaller parties) met at Bonn last September to draw up a satisfactory form of government. Their instructions were to make the future government relatively weak, leaving much of the power in the hands of the eleven separate states. Disagreement among the Allies themselves, however, affected the council's deliberations all along, and the Bonn group has presented no acceptable document to the Military Governors...
Canadians Smaller...
...smaller, shiftier Canadian team made two main scoring bids and seemed to have the better of things in the first half, when the wind was at their backs...