Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opens up a pathway to the sea," Masefield went on, and that was the meaning of the occasion when the Queen of Canada extended a welcoming hand...
...Austerity Czar. Frondizi went on to consult with big businessmen, stockbrokers, landowners, bankers-the group Argentines call the fuerzas vivas (productive forces)-and announced a new Cabinet. Key man, as Minister of Economics, was Alvaro Alsogaray, 46, a tough, bouncy free enterpriser in the Ludwig Erhard mold. Said he to Frondizi: "I will carry out your austerity plan, but with my own methods and my own team...
Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
From the moment W. Averell Harriman, special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, arrived in Moscow last May, the Red carpet went out. His hosts assigned him one of their top interpreters. Vasily Vakhrushev, who last year guided Adlai Stevenson around the Soviet states. Chauffeured official ZIS and Zim sedans were placed at his disposal; interviews with party leaders-including a 90-minute tete-a-tete with Khrushchev-were easy. Barriers melted away, and the safari toured industrial areas in Siberia and the Urals hitherto closed to capitalist rubbernecks...
...separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered a door" should be "went through a door," whether the Angara River was "blocked," "breached" or "dammed." Finally, he would dictate the approved version over a fading phone line to Moscow, for transmission to N.A.N.A. newspaper clients...