Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. "Beedle," Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war, went to Moscow as ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
When swords went out of fashion, Solingen's craftsmen turned their skill to the making of bayonets, cutlery, scissors, surgical instruments, straight razors, and even wafer-thin, newfangled safety razor blades...
...Complete calm prevails throughout the country." Rural shooting stopped. Business perked up as merchants saw a chance to get the coffee crop to market after all. Many bogotanos went down the mountainsides to resort hotels for a holiday weekend...
...Protestant nondenominational China Inland Mission accepted her for a three-year training course, though, at 26, she was a year over the age limit. But her education was not good enough, and she flunked out miserably in the first term of the course. Determined to serve in China, she went back to London and took on two maids' jobs at once. She wanted to earn enough money to go to China on her own and work with Mrs. Jeannie Lawson, an old China missionary who had grown tired of retirement and, at 74, had returned to China...
When Mrs. Lawson died a year later, Gladys went on alone. Once her converts were formed into groups, Gladys Aylward, who belongs to no denomination, saw to it that they joined the nearest Christian mission. Some became Baptists, some Methodists. Says she: "I work kind of alongside everyone. We're all after the one thing-souls for Jesus Christ. I don't care if they're sprinkled or immersed...