Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she had met Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell in love right there...
...success, the expedition also got too much advance publicity. Then Trujillo threatened to protest to the U.N., and the U.S. State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the expedition's arsenal on Education Minister Alemán's estate near Havana. Grau's hand was forced (TIME, Oct. 6). The Army and Navy went to work, and the invasion...
...time out from table talk to toast a monument to family unity: Volume 22 of the Casasola Graphic History of the Revolution, 1910-1940. Into its making had gone some of the choicest pictures that three generations of Casasolas had contributed to the family archives (no Casasola uses the word "files...
...bought K-F stock at its May low, and kept it, had more than doubled his money; the stock had climbed steadily to the year's high of 11¾. The reason: since July, Henry Kaiser, Joseph Frazer and associates, while publishing no figures, had quietly spread the word that K-F was making money hand over fist. Their unofficial story: during the first five months of 1947, the company lost $1.4 million (on top of 1946's loss of $19.3 million), but in June, the company got in the black...
...problem of the South is still not a problem in the educational temple of Virginia. In the written recollections of one graduate of 1900 is a kind word for janitor Henry Martin-"his manner is urbane and dignified and his probity perfect-in short he is a fine old colored gentleman...