Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Committee One discussed admission of Eire, Albania, Portugal, Trans-Jordan and the Mongolian People's Republic. The overheated committee room, with its entire contents of delegates, tables and sorely tried hopes, seemed to swim in a bluish haze of tobacco smoke. Cuba (Guillermo Belt) dozed off, woke up a quarter-hour later, rosy-cheeked and refreshed. Later, South Africa (Jan Christian Smuts) went to sleep. Declared Liberia (C. Abayomi Cassell): ". . . We will not move the big powers-each of them has its own fish...
John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
...band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...
...their first bath, and, as a special treat, sardines, black bread, sausage and the inevitable vodka. "The first toast," said Cobin, "was for friendship. The second was for victory. I've forgotten what the third one was for, because I was halfway through drinking it when I woke up the next morning back in my original improvised cell." Last week they were released after signing statements that they were not spies and had not been mistreated. Their Russian "opposite numbers" had been released July...
...gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept in her private journal...