Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noel was as bright as ever. Some 685,000 found their way to the austerity-ridden country of Dickens and plum pudding, which celebrated heartily this year-even if it still did not eat very heartily. Everywhere people who once would have been too proud to take them last week accepted the gifts from the table of American abundance...
...Child. At a fair in Berlin's Soviet sector, swings, merry-go-rounds and roller coasters whirled in a raucous counterfeit of yuletide gaiety, but there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups and plates to brighten her yuletide table, "another Communist Christmas...
...bright, spots in Berlin was the busy office of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. Last week some 10,000 parcels of food, clothing and other goods from the U.S. poured into CARE's office in the city's Western sector. A white-haired, undernourished piano teacher wept openly as a CARE parcel containing a Christmas turkey was handed to her. "Someone I don't even know," she cried, "a Dr. Cohn of New York, sent this...
...Teaches Lesson." The gift parcels from people like the Pierces, which for weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world where Christmas was cherished. Some 30,000 of them went to Japan, which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from...
...opposed the U.N. internationalization plan as highhanded and unrealistic, but now warned Israel against an "inflammatory move." The shift of Israel's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had been long and carefully prepared; several government departments had quietly moved to the Holy City months ago. Last week, in his big black Cadillac, the Premier himself motored resolutely to Jerusalem. During his 90-minute drive through settlements along the way, hundreds of Israelis cheered...