Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business all but ceased. At the morgue, men & women moved with a stunned matter-of-factness-one woman, looking for her baby, stared at a small, charred body and said, "No, he was smaller" in the same tone she might have used if she were shopping. The funerals went on for days...
...Rope Went Slack. Down the dark opening, her mother heard Kathy crying, tried to find out her position. "Kathy, Kathy, is your head up?" she called. "Yes, it is," Kathy sobbed. "Is your head down?" her mother asked. "Yes, it is," came Kathy's voice, thin and frightened. Then there was only the dismayed crying of a child beginning to realize that her mother was not going to make everything all right...
...three hours before the shaft could be pumped dry. Whitey went back down. "He deserves a knighthood," said a worker, "but he doesn't even have a job." Others relieved him. The lateral tunnel began to cave in. The low talk of the workmen was carried over the loudspeaker. "It's caving to beat the band," said the voice below. Timbers went down for shoring. The men worked on, regardless of danger, or bone-deep fatigue. Little O. A. Kelly leaned back wearily when he was pulled to the surface, and swore: "I'm going in there...
...German politicians at Bonn went into a huddle, announced that they would withhold "official" comment for several days. But it was already clear that the Socialists -who had made the loudest demands for a more centralized Western German state" -were bitterly opposed to the new agreement. Berlin's Socialist newspaper Sozial-demokrat called the statute's stringent restrictions on German sovereignty "reasons for sorrow...
...Conservatives had an edge of more than 100,000 votes over the Laborites. Gone was Labor's uncontested rule of London and its breezy confidence about the 1950 general elections. With 64 seats each in the county council, the Conservatives and Laborites were tied. The one remaining seat went to the Liberal candidate, 73-year-old Sir Percy Harris. In the popular vote the Conservatives got 1,523,529, the Laborites...