Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead for aid. "Man," Blum read, "always goes from grief to grief...
When Göring returned to his seat in the dock, the other defendants crowded around him to shake his hand, slap his back. Shouted one: "Hermann, halt die Ohren steif!" ("Keep your ears stiff": keep a stiff upper lip). Growled a member of the Russian prosecution staff: "The pig will long be remembered for this speech...
...broke a 200-year-old tradition, let students' wives live on the campus. Colgate admitted its first four coeds. Harvard was besieged by 325 veterans a day. Illinois, Ohio State and Purdue turned down out-of-state applicants. Rutgers wrestled with a freshman class larger than the three upper classes combined. Enrollment at Michigan (13,714) was the biggest in its 109-year history...
...city and province of Buenos Aires, which controlled almost half of the nation's 376 electoral votes, would swing the election. Perón would show his chief strength among country peons and unorganized workers of the cities. Tamborini depended on the upper and middle classes and an unknown sector of organized labor. A potent, unmeasured factor: the Church, which took a jaundiced view of Tamborini's Communist support...
...Perthshire, Scotland. One day, when his father was absent, ten-year-old William took over the class in the one-room schoolhouse. Three years later his father died, and William had to teach for a living. After graduating with honors from the University of Edinburgh, he taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Harvard...