Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the politicians went to King Paul with a list of old names in a new arrangement, they found the monarch in a stern mood. He told them that they must form a really effective and representative government; otherwise, he would install Greece's most venerated soldier, General Alexander Papagos, as Premier. Papagos, who had driven the Italians back into Albania in 1941, would not come out of retirement unless he was given a free hand...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...
...years, Chaim Weizmann was born in one of the darkest corners of the Pale of Settlement, where the Russian Czars allowed the Jews to live. His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism...
...Unrequited Love." In 1904, Fact-maker Weizmann went to live in England. The British government had already (in 1903) offered the Jews a national home in Uganda, British East Africa, and in the El Arish district, now in Egypt, which last month the Israeli army belatedly and briefly occupied. The Zionists had refused. It was up to Weizmann to explain why only Palestine would do. He started talking in 1906, when he first met Balfour; he was still talking (harder & faster) in 1916, when he was made director of the Admiralty Laboratories and invented a new means of producing acetone...
...part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...