Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Men at a Booth. After that, for a while, the gorillas lay low. They were on the prowl one hot afternoon last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...
...spoke, a couple of baby-faced plainclothesmen boarded the train and went down the aisle of car after car, peering into each compartment. The train started with a lurch. "At last," breathed the blonde girl sitting opposite...
Chemical drums went on exploding during the first night and sparks from bulldozer treads fired unburned pools of gasoline and chemicals, but ton after ton of tile, rock and wreckage was dragged out aboveground. The entire tunnel was reopened to traffic only 56 hours after the fire had begun. It would take a million dollars and months of night-time work before the Holland Tunnel was completely restored. But the great tunnel was still tight and safe-fireboats, cruising the Hudson above it, had seen no telltale bubbles of escaping...
Berliners were happy, but they did not dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift...
...football as a halfback at West Point (classmates remember him particularly as being "good on the defensive"), was graduated 92nd out of 168 in the star-studded class of 1915, whose roster included names like Ike Eisenhower (class standing: 61) and Omar Bradley (44). In World War I, he went to France as an infantry major. Between wars, he taught infantry tactics at Fort Benning, served in Maine, San Diego, the Canal Zone. Of his classmates, a dozen or more had won stars while Van Fleet was still a chicken colonel. But he prided himself on being a "doughboy...