Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delegates were far more likely to forget their conference disputes than the fantastic Babylon-in-Brazil in which their sessions had been held. The Swiss-styled Quitandinha Hotel sits in a fogbound mountain valley with little to see but man-made pools, lawns, terraces and a horse ring. Syrup-slow dining-room service had queered routine entertaining. Bar prices ($2.45 for a Scotch) dried up most sociable drinking. Griped Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Trujillo, worried about his bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh." Some delegates...
...Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge and letter-writing. After three dull weeks, the gaudy ex-gambling palace in the valley of fog was finally coming into...
...than 30 buildings had been destroyed, orthodox Doukhobors began to wonder about the wisdom of continued submission. Said Peter Postnikoff: "I refuse to hit any man. But maybe I'll forget my teachings." Last week, orthodox Doukhobors finally asked for action. Extra constables hustled to the fertile Kootenay Valley. The bag by week's end: 14 Sons of Freedom arrested, seven sent to jail for terms ranging from six months to a year...
...than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island in the White Sea, which has been in business since 1923, and Dalstroy's camps in the Kolyma valley in eastern Siberia...
...chauffeur. Cassard was a rumpled, realistic Frenchman, who admitted to an impulse to vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical, Will You Marry Me?-and getting nowhere. One day, driving in the San Fernando Valley, Cassard ran over and hospitalized Dirty Eddie. Cassard had found his ideal teammate...