Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours before dawn, a bleary-eyed night porter at The Hague's stuffy Hotel des Indes (named for The Netherlands' once vast and profitable colonies) opened the heavy oaken door for a weary guest, who went promptly to his room, and to sleep. He was slim, patient Jan Herman van Royen, able career diplomat and chief Dutch troubleshooter at The Hague Round Table Conference, which had been called to settle the differences between Indonesia and The Netherlands (TIME, Sept. 5). Van Royen had just wound up a crucial committee meeting which seemed to assure the conference...
...miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
...month the shooting of the outdoor sequences clicked along without a hitch. When the moviemakers went back to London to finish some indoor shots, the squires of Much Wenlock finally holed up to have a look at Mrs. Webb's novel. What they read led them to draft a hasty letter to the potent British Field Sports Society...
Last month the filmsters went back to Much Wenlock to shoot Gone to Earth's climactic scenes. They found a new and unexpected chill in the Shropshire air: there was not a Master of Foxhounds in sight who would lend a pack of hounds to them. They tried farther afield, but the Sports Society had done its work well. "We gave no orders to any M.F.H.," explained its Assistant Secretary Michael Shephard. "We simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned...
Vice President Alben Berkley began to fancy his privacy but went on paying the price of fame. His black limousine pulled up in front of a flossy Washington jeweler's after closing time, and the door was opened for the bridegroom-elect. Afterward, newsmen told him that he had been spotted and asked for an explanation. "Oh, hell," groaned Barkley, then sheepishly admitted shopping for a ring...