Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decision & Reaction. Next day, the striking local held a meeting, decided that it liked the Davis tactic of mass picketing -and the courts be damned. Next morning more than 1,400 pickets formed a solid wall around the plant. Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow talked with union leaders, asked them not to force his hand...
...named Unjebanenjebet began to have intimations of mortality. Like any Egyptian noble, what concerned him most was the proper accouterments for his journey to the Land of the Dead. His Pharaoh, Psousennes, who ruled at Tanis, near present-day Port Said, had assigned him a burial chamber in the wall of his own royal tomb. But the next essential, a proper stone sarcophagus, was hard to find...
...secret chamber General Unjebanenjebet slept on. A new war raged in Africa. Professor Montet, his funds cut off by the German invaders, returned to defeated France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...
...boss was a little man with a neat white mustache and strait-laced ideals. He hung pictures of another great Texan on every wall at the plant, drummed Davy Crockett's motto ("Be sure you're right, then go ahead") into Son E. M. ("Ted") Dealey...
...Tear the Wall. German delegates mingled with such survivors of Nazi oppression as Norway's heroic Bishop Eivind Berggrav, France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's Martin Niemoller*, who made a heartfelt confession of his country's guilt, and at least a partial atone ment for his previous statement that a "good German" does not ask whether or not Germany's cause is just...