Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the communal riots in Delhi, a Moslem restaurateur saw a fellow Moslem slaughtered in front of the shop. He went to the phone and got Nehru directly. "Wait ten minutes!" cried the Prime Minister. "I'll be right down." In ten minutes, Nehru was on the scene with truckfuls of police. From the middle of the street, bent over a map of the district, he directed the cleanup of looters...
...Austrians went to the polls this week, for the first time since 1945, to elect a Parliament. The election kept in power the anti-Communist coalition of Chancellor Leopold Figl's Christian-Democratic People's Party and the Socialists. The People's Party polled about 45% of the votes, captured 77 parliamentary seats (as against 85 in 1945). The Socialists got 67 seats (they had 76 before). The new League of Independent Voters, which is openly pro-Nazi, gained; it got an ominous 12% of the popular vote and 16 seats. The Communists, still Austria...
...want justice to take its normal course." His only request was that Defendant Taillefer not be allowed to wear a priest's garb in court. In his jail cell, Arthur Taillefer was handed an ill-fitting brown gabardine suit, took it without protest. He wore it when he went to trial...
...game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the massacre...
...pace for his stablemates, broke clear at once and led all the way to the final turn. By then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...