Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boewet thought human blood too costly a fertilizer. He went on: "I stand here and think about all the blood from so many corners of Europe which was spilled over this plain. Every month someone digs up a new skeleton. They can usually tell by the buttons of his uniform whether he was French, British, Prussian, Belgian or Dutch...
Next morning, Holy Saturday, Ladas stopped off at the Church of Saint George to light a traditional candle. As he stepped back into his waiting car, a young man in a Greek air force uniform walked up, tossed in a hand grenade. The explosion mortally wounded Ladas and his policeman bodyguard, injured the tosser, Communist Ephstratios Moutsoyannis. As the police dragged him off, he muttered: "Party orders ... party orders...
...campus, earned money as a grocery clerk, bakery pan-greaser, sleeping-car conductor. He was an above-average student, president of the student body, senior orator, member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, captain of the rifle team (he once shot tassels off a fellow R.O.T.C. student's uniform in an exhibition...
...addition to the somberly clad signers there were two men in military uniform-Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Pierre Koenig, representing the western zones of Germany. Thus Western Germany, economically, at least, rejoined Europe, looked forward to active participation in OEEC. To many Germans this fact seemed to overshadow a possible fracture of Germany as a whole...
...them, "customs union" means tearing down the tariff wall along the border and erecting a uniform wall around North America. Because the U.S. has 18 times as much economic power as the Dominion, Canadians realize that it would be a U.S. wall. It would probably shut off the Dominion from 'its time-honored British sources of supply. It would kill imperial preference...