Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister Sir Basil Brooke, as his people went to the polls...
...half the hemisphere it was summer, the hottest in years. Millions of latinos, turning away from rumors of political plots and the facts of economic crises, splurged on record-breaking holidays. The rich, kept from Manhattan and Europe by foreign-exchange restrictions, went to the home resorts. The new industrial classes, their pockets packed with inflated currencies, plunged into the pleasures of unaccustomed leisure. In such seaside capitals as Rio and Montevideo, even the underprivileged poor had a chance to play on world-famous beaches...
...next day, St. Laurent attended Low Mass at Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral, then went to lunch as guest of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. When he left for home (by train, because sleet prevented flying over the St. Lawrence), St. Laurent could safely leave the i-dotting details to be worked out on the embassy level. During the 45-hour visit, Harry Truman, no linguist, had almost learned how to pronounce his guest's name. It came out "San Loran...
Missing Models. By 1914 they had quarreled. Picasso went his wild way; Braque stuck with cubism. Over the years Braque's paintings grew simpler and subtler, his cubes melted and merged. Where his predominantly low-keyed palette had given even his landscapes a stuffy, indoor look, he came to use flashes of fresh color. His compositions looked fragile as a house of cards, but being perfectly balanced they stood...
None of this advice improved her deafness, but Marie went on in life cheerfully convinced that she was only a little hard of hearing and could manage well enough. She married a childhood friend named Henry Heiner, and settled down in Cleveland...