Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the statesmen gathered at Potsdam last July to settle the future of Germany, the sky was blue, the land was bright under a warm summer sun. Last week, powdery snow whirled down into Berlin's pocked streets, and onto Berlin's Grunewald, where the trees had been cut down for firewood and even the stumps were now being pulled out. Thousands of shivering, tired Germans lugged their bundles of wood to cold, bombed houses. Hospitals were crowded. Because the patients were undernourished, many died...
Russia, in search of markets and warm water, has been in & out of Iran since the early 17th Century. The British were there before them. In Iran the thin, red line of British west-to-east imperialism crosses the north-to-south axis of Russian expansionism. In Peter the Great's famed "testament" (even if he did not write it, historians call it an accurate expression of Russian policy), he exhorted his countrymen to "excite continual wars in Turkey and Persia...
...second week of the General Motors strike wore away, feelings grew more bitter. The C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers set up an outdoor soup kitchen in Detroit to keep its pickets warm. In Saginaw, someone threw bricks through the windows of a company officer's house; the union called it an attempt to smear the union...
...enchanting beauties, he has the power to produce them. If he wishes to see monstrosities ... he has the power and authority to create them. If he wishes to produce towns or deserts, if in the hot season he wants cool and shady places, or in the cold season warm places, he can make them. If he wants valleys, if from high mountaintops he wants to ... see the horizon on the sea, he has the power to create all this. Indeed, whatever exists in the universe, whether in essence, in act, or in the imagination, the painter has first...
...everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay on the PC, where it would be warm, and there would be coffee, and there would not be much danger. They had to go in. When I looked at these faces and realized these things, I knew I could not stay aboard the PC. I had cast my lot with these men when...