Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Months went by. Nobody saw August Simolke. But finally last autumn, one of his sons-in-law read that the body of a man was lying unclaimed at the city morgue. He investigated. He hurried back, brought Jennie and others of the family. They identified the body instantly. There were two unmistakable red dots on his face, and the second finger of his left hand was twisted as it had always been...
...Hayes Landon, founder of the Springfield (Mass.) District Men's Republican Club, went to Washington to see Truman's Inauguration. Said he: "I'm tired of waiting for a Republican...
...about 400 feet, less than half the normal height for training jumps. But Hodgkiss sensed disaster, yelled: "Stand up, hook up, jump!" There was only time for Hodgkiss to see that all chutes were hooked to the static line. In seven seconds (half the usual minimum time) 36 men went out through the two doors. It was Hodgkiss' turn. He took a look. By this time the shuddering C82 was too low for him to get out. Sergeant Hodgkiss sat down and braced himself...
...appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State, led Western Europeans to assume that U.S. policy toward Russia would become softer. The assumption was wispy; nobody knew whether U.S. policy would soften or not. But the European reaction to the assumption was real. Much of the recent stiffness went out of the man-on-the-street's backbone...
...Homeric Heroes." A few moments after Cachin had finished, Edouard Herriot was re-elected president of the Assembly. In his acceptance speech he went right on from where Cachin had left off-just as the Communists hoped he and millions of others would do. Russia and the U.S., said Herriot, "face each other in helmeted defiance, two Homeric heroes." The implication: their quarrel is not Western Europe's-Western Europe should become a third force that would strive for a reconciliation between the giants...