Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house when the guard asked me a question in Guaraní, the language of the Paraguayan pueblo. The old man spoke up for me and the guard, satisfied, admitted us into the unpaved courtyard crammed with prisoners. There was a big parade going on in another part of town, and I suppose the guards figured that no correspondent would pass up a good parade to look at a jail...
...hotel to take me to meet the leader of the underground, a man well-known to the police, who have yet to catch him. After doubling around the city three or four times we drew up to an old ramshackle house on the edge of town...
...After the interview I couldn't wait to get out of town. I returned to my hotel and, inasmuch as it was my birthday, ate some birthday cake. The (next morning, with my three colleagues, I boarded the Buenos Aires plane and sat there, feeling most uncomfortable, with a big, fat manila envelope full of opposition documents among my possessions. Neither the police nor the customs officials molested me, however, and when the big seaplane took off from the Parana river it was too late for anyone to do anything about...
...lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg-lit, high-pressure, high...
...scenes of slaughter at the front, the shooting of American prisoners); to the liberation of the first concentration camp (emaciated prisoners, panic-stricken Nazis, the guards killed by the prisoners). He follows the same group, picking up a few camp-followers, through captured Neustadt, Sergeant Bing's home town (street fighting, the establishment of a civilian administration, the recapture of the town by the Nazis and the hanging of the American-appointed mayor); through the occupation of Kremmen (pop. 200,000), with Loomis and Willoughby falling into the clutches of a Marlene Dietrich-like vampire in whose arms they...