Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the western suburbs, where the upper and middle classes live and where the Americans and British now rule, the damage diminishes. For blocks there is nothing more unsightly than a cardboard window pane, and the gardens are pretty and well tended. In the American sector of Zehlendorf a survey of the damage has been tabulated, and it is probably typical of the western part of the city. Eight percent of the buildings are untouched, 35% damaged, 49% in various degrees of destruction short of complete, 8% completely destroyed...
...took their revenge for what happened in Russia. The Russian soldiers now policing Berlin are as well-behaved as those of their Allies, no better, no worse. It would be inaccurate not to report that many Berliners are still afraid of the Russians, especially those Germans of the upper and middle classes. But most of the stories about the Germans' efforts to get out of the Russian zone ignore the fact that there is more shelter in the British and American sectors...
...site, already bought and paid for, is Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, hard by the conventional Metropolitan Museum. The Guggenheim collection has been housed for six years in a temporary, rented building...
Catering to San Francisco's upper middle class, paternalistic, 79-year-old O'Connor, Moffatt's has displayed its wares in a subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line, ad, or antic smacking of the sensational. Example: last year O'C.M. turned down an Adrian-designed dress line as "too Hollywood"; the rival City of Paris across the street snapped it up, did handsomely...
...Bite. At Camp Butner, N.C., Private Willie Jackson lacked a dog-tag but got his pay all right when he produced his upper plate, inscribed: "Willie Jack...