Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western side of the wall the street is cluttered with signs: "Freedom Must Not End Here," pictures of President Kennedy, of Peter Fechter, killed on the wall, and of an unknown refugee from the East who was shot near Warsaw Bridge. On the house walls are, large blown-up photographs of refugees and of a Russian tank suppressing the abortive East German revolution of 1953, all clearly visible in the East...
...fact, this letter comes to you as a surprise because we are unknown to each other. I passed my B.A. degree in St. Xavier's College of Madras University and now I am studying in the Training College...
...patient looks just like his mother, has difficulty explaining his dilemma to the chief psychiatrist. "Do you think she's trying to seduce you?" asks the doctor. "Um . . . you can't put it like that," mumbles Warren. The doctor puts it another way: "It isn't unknown for patients to seduce personnel, and vice versa." And he gamely adds, "I think all of us here are concerned with rapture in some way." That may be. But it does seem silly to deliver the same old Hollywood sexology in a fancy wrapper marked resh kavawn...
...life of the refugee is hard. He usually has left a family behind in Johannesburg or Windhoek or Lourenco Marques and has travelled a long and dangerous journey to reach an unknown land. He does not speak the local language; he has no money, no clothes, and often little hope. If he comes from a great city like Johannesburg or Cape Town, he invariably finds Dar es Salaam unattractive and longs for the music and night life and friendship of home. He is often quick to tell others that he wants to go back, and equally swift to admit...
...coral-and-palm flyspeck 1,300 miles northeast of Australia, Nauru has an area of 8½ square miles and a population of 2,700. Only 100 years ago, it was a virtually unknown battleground of savages who guzzled coconut toddy and sported necklaces of human teeth; in 1852 the Nauruans inhospitably chopped up the entire crew of the visiting American brig, India. Since the turn of the century, however, life for the islanders has been one long enchanted evening...