Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago, I was taking leave of a German acquaintance on Limastrasse in front of my Zehlendorf house while a spry, blond boy about three and a half feet high stood gaping at me, as his kind in Berlin will. When I had said goodbye and turned to walk toward the mess, he came up, grinned, took my hand and said, "Du sprichst doch Deutsch. Hast du kein Kaugummi für mich...
After some persuasion Dietrich agreed to take me to see his school, and we set out one afternoon. It was a good 40-minute walk. Boys went mornings one week and afternoons the next week, alternating with girls. Even with shifts and poor attendance the building was very crowded. Dietrich told me about how a bomb once fell near him when he was going to school. Since then, he said seriously, he never liked to go to school even if the bombings were over...
...destroyer transport, he told about it: "The first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting pretty ripe-I don't know how they stood the smell. Finally they let a doctor wash...
Lots of Alibi. Overnight, Talbert's knee stiffened so he could barely walk. But he limped onto the court with a crack: "There's nothing wrong with my knee, except I can't bend it." Somehow, he covered enough ground to beat Parker the first two games. Then, when the count had evened at 4-all, the two battled through 18 games without a break in service. The crowd of 12,000 rose to applaud - and stretch - when Talbert's tremendous serve put him ahead, 12-11. But after doing the impossible on one good...
...Tourtillot, a former German teacher at the University of Wisconsin. Books are supplied by the Red Cross and inter national Y.M.C.A. Besides formal instruction and informal sports, the camp's re-education program includes election of jurors to the prisoners' own disciplinary court, a once-a-week walk outside the compound, and showings of Nazi atrocity films...