Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm reported that he had had a fine time. The girl had turned out to be quite a skier. Where was she now?" "I don't know. We said goodbye and she went back to work...
...father was a Congregationalist minister from Seville, Ohio. He was progressive, and even accepted Darwin's version of Genesis. As a little girl, Anna Louise Strong believed in a lot of things. First, she recalls, she went for the idea that every human being has a soulmate; but she never found one. Then she believed that she could crowd a thousand lives into one lifetime-to be "a North Pole explorer, a great writer, a mother of ten." She turned out to be none of these things...
...Restful Eyes. From the beginning, Anna Louise Strong was not quite happy with her Communist god. When she went to Russia as a relief worker for the American Friends' Service Committee, and later as a U.S. correspondent, her enthusiasm for the cause met with limited response. She tried to join the Russian Communist Party. She was refused.* Taunted a Russian comrade: "A sentimental bourgeois like...
...cost of a national health service had originally been estimated at ?100 million annually, then revised upwards an additional ?61 million by the time the plan went into effect last July. Now, eight months later, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan announced that the Health Service would need ?58,455,000 more than its budget had planned. Thundered Winston Churchill: "Grossest carelessness . . . wild miscalculations...
...time, Rensburg's office was full of villagers protesting against dilapidated hovels, noisome shops and tumbledown factories. Rensburg took scrupulous notes on each report. Then he went to investigate. He gave some storekeepers 24 hours to close down their businesses. He revoked licenses right & left. He condemned some buildings as unsafe and ordered immediate structural repairs on the local butcher shop. Butcher Sam Wiseman was so frightened that he promptly called a contractor and begged him to work over the weekend...