Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After several beatings, she fainted. I thought the others would be frightened then, but they weren't - they seemed angry. They threw cold water in her face. After a few minutes she revived. They made her get into position again...
Beethoven, Bach and Mozart weren't even in the running in Victor Records' ten classical best-sellers of 1946. Victor's ten high-selling albums...
When they weren't building, plastering or painting, the Americans cycled around the countryside, doing odd jobs wherever they stopped. In Paris 30 hostelers were invited to Schiaparelli's for tea, showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
...Japanese and the Danes had to face it: they just weren't hep. They were confused and not often amused by the out-of-this-world conversation of American G.I.s and by the latest U.S. movies and books. How could they get with it? Last week, dictionaries offering what was. hopefully called the lowdown on the American language were near-sellouts in both Denmark and Japan...
...teachers mistook for a fire drill) 260 students filed out of the brick schoolhouse. Gallused tobacco growers loafing around the country courthouse in Rogersville, Tenn. (pop. 2,018) watched the kids coming, gaped in surprise when they read the cardboard signs. The kids were on strike for something kids weren't supposed to care too much about: they wanted more and better teachers...