Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of 2,000 an hour, motorists rolled onto the motorway on its first day, and went weaving and swerving across the unfamiliar lanes in a spine-chilling display of what police later called "bad traffic-lane discipline." Fast drivers jockeyed at speeds that reached 120 m.p.h. Slowpoke trucks and antique autos clung stolidly to lanes reserved for fast traffic. Scores of cars, not up to the pace or to the handling they got, gasped to a halt-as often as not on the pavement-with burst tires, smoking engines or empty fuel tanks. In the first five hours there...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to bed early. Turning on the radio next morning at his desert cottage at Sde Boker, he heard the news at breakfast that he had won another election. Then his campaign manager helicoptered in from Tel Aviv to tell him he had won the biggest triumph of his political career...
Armed with powers second only to those of the President himself, Amer arrived secretly by destroyer-a security measure made necessary by the fact that the United Arab Republic is separated by Israel-and promptly went to work on the Syrian army. It was suffering from the familiar fear of Syria's 4,200,000 citizens that they are about to be reduced to a parity with Egypt's poorer 24,800,000. "My brethren," cried Amer, "be cautious of the intrigues of the opportunists and of destructive rumors." There was nothing, he added fervently, to the rumors...
...magazine also printed a rebuttal from one V. Reznikov, a waiter at the Hotel Sovietskaya. Pointing out that the pay was low (it is) and tips were "the only form of reward for extra efforts," Waiter Reznikov, a true member of his trade, went on to pay his respects to those whose tribute he accepts: "They don't even know how to sit at the table correctly. They think you should tie your napkin round your neck. Not all of them know that you should not prop your elbows on the table. Some come in without...
...liquidation." Since it was such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil days of 1937-38, when the officer corps was decimated by purges. In the chandeliered glitter of the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Toastmaster Khrushchev went on to offer five more toasts on the 42nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit of Camp David." Earlier, there had been the shortest (seven minutes) military parade through Red Square in all the 42 years, with nothing to show in new weapons...