Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elegant oak-paneled office had paintings and a Persian rug. In it sat a German official of the Soviet zone, and I congratulated him on the handsomest surroundings I had seen in ruined Dresden...
...since V-E day, and anyone who wants to realize how long a time that is need only listen to Germans. In May 1945 the Germans, humbly incoherent, thought the conquerors would impose their will on Germany, and that their will would be a German democracy. Instead, in each zone, the occupying power tried to set up a German administration in its own image. Not even the Russians succeeded...
...Gleaners. Prewar, the Soviet zone was always a food-surplus area, which the three Western zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
...American Way." The U.S. zone has far fewer Americans than the Soviet zone has Russians. Most of the Americans, though not the most important ones, are downy-cheeked G.I.s in their late teens. They have no real notion of why !hey are there. At Passau in Bavaria one of their officers told me: "We aren't making any impression on the Germans that I can see. There are only 300 Americans in this whole area of some 700,000 Germans. Our number is being further cut. Very few of us are interested in Germany. Few of us know...
Just before the game ended Winthrop passed 61 yards for a score with Dave Aloian completing 6 of 8 serials on route, the last going to right end Ethan Bisbee in the end zone...