Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans sat around drinking Rodestock's watery beer, three smartly dressed U.S. paratroopers, white gloves folded under their shoulder straps, strode in and sat down. But only for a moment. Suddenly they were on their feet, with guns drawn. Rodestock's terrified patrons backed against the wall. Swiftly the soldiers frisked them, gathered up watches, cheap jewelry and a few thousand marks. They emptied the cash register and locked Rodestock's patrons in a back room. Outside, they climbed into two U.S. jeeps, with Army drivers at the wheels, and disappeared down the Bahnstrasse...
Round a portly, florid French chef in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant on rue de Longchamp clustered 60 homesick Mexicans. The peppery air crackled and popped with counsel on the making of tortillas and chile relleno on current Paris rations...
Minister of Education Torres Bodet, hoping to avoid a second controversy, gave Biddle just one fervent instruction: "For God's sake, do something constructive!" Glowed Biddle: "This is the most beautiful wall space I ever hope to have...
Labor had nicknamed aloof, reserved A. P. Sloan "the undertaker." Some of his associates call him "Silent Sloan." But not to his face; they always address him as "Mr." His immense wealth ($43,000,000 in G.M. stock alone) has somehow connected him in the public mind with Wall Street financiers...
Some 13 men from Henry Lamar's 1944 informal squad will be back as the nucleus of this year's team, reinforced by three or four returning veterans from the 1942 formal team. Among the regulars on the forward wall will be Dave Mackintosh and Rod Perkins at the end positions, Chet Pierce at tackle, Howie Foster, Ellis Hodge, Teddy Woggon, and Mel Allen at guard, and Paul O'Leary at center...