Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leipzig's great railway station was smashed and burned in the bombings, but its charred walls were hung last week with red bunting, evergreen boughs and Socialist slogans. Tens of thousands of Germans, transported on 95 special trains, poured through it to Leipzig's first fair since 1941...
After sunset, tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to the big city feel a lemming-like urge to go nightclubbing. The way is usually beset by obstacles and hazards: doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and...
One day last week in the big, grey Department of Agriculture building, armed guards brought locked boxes to a room whose occupants had been locked in for several hours. In the boxes were the summaries of tens of thousands of reports from the important wheat states. Adding machines clacked, then...
Bird Shot. Tens of thousands who saw the mighty hunter slaying stage Indians and popping glass balls with a pistol (loaded with bird shot) were ready to believe anything about him. For two decades Bill crossed and recrossed the U.S., beaming when women swooned at his bearded beauty. When he...
Because they were afraid that Mexico City's new bull ring might not be as solid as it looked, Government officials insisted on testing the upper deck with tens of thousands of bags of cement before letting 48,699 enthusiastic aficionados swarm in for last week's inaugural...