Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union was never like this." Soviet Army wives were unanimous in their verdict when they viewed the conveniences of ordinary German houses. "I'm never going home unless there is water from the wall and light from the ceiling of my dacha," exclaimed...
...burdening itself with taxation, failure to assume responsibility in the hope that some neighbor would do all the work and take all the risks. But only the Communists screamed. "Yankee imperialism," they cried. Snyder had come "to make an inventory of our riches," to "subject our country to Wall Street." Nobody paid much attention. So far as most Brazilians could see, U.S. capital was no longer a one-way gouge; it worked for Brazil as well as the investors in the U.S. Economic partnership might come next...
...never quite cottoned to some of the newfangled freedoms. Marietta's trustees didn't like it when President William A. Shimer, 53, got a divorce a year ago. They disapproved even more when Shimer began courting Dean of Women Dorothy Blair, 36, and someone printed on the wall outside his house: "Dottie loves Willie-Willie loves Dottie...
...powerful domestic sugar-growers' lobby, the Sugar Act of 1948 was quietly ushered through Congress; until the final stages, it hardly drew a fly. But last week, just a few days before the House-approved bill was sent to the Senate,* an angry buzz was heard. Cried the Wall Street Journal: "A legal monopoly [for which] the consumer is to pay." Charged the New York Times: "A cartel! Written by the sugar industry for the sugar industry...
When Cooper finds Lorenz, he discovers that the Gestapo had ways of cracking even heroes, that those once tortured seldom successfully faced a second dose. Said one Gestapo victim, "indicating the gaudy Christ-on-the-Cross on the wall behind him, 'I'll wager that even He would not have undertaken it a second time. Not for anybody...