Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over New Jersey, police were looking for him: Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
...Socialists balked. For seven hours on one day last week and 15 hours on the next, they deadlocked cabinet meetings. Finally, Premier Marie had enough of it. "We are up against a blank wall," he said, "and I don't like the view." He decided to trick the Socialist tricksters, who, he knew, wanted to resign separately from the cabinet and leave him holding the bag. Marie asked to be excused for a minute. "I'll be right back," he said. Most of the ministers thought he had gone to the lavatory. Actually he had gone to draw...
Round Table Discussions: "[They are] . . . like boring a hole through the wall of a Turkish bath...
...village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
...take over. Poker Player White felt like the Eastern tenderfoot who started to take in the pot on a royal flush, only to have a Western pro lay down a pair of deuces and announce that he had a Galoola Bird. The Westerner pointed to a sign on the wall...