Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week 55-year-old Grotewohl was taken to the Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail...
Nevertheless, he gave his afternoon concerts to packed houses and almost all the oldtimers were there-Mrs. William Dana Orcutt, who has held the same second-row seat for more than 20 years, and a score of others, including Cabots, Coolidges and Saltonstalls who have held their favorite seats as long or longer...
...half to say it because he often groans, weeps or passes into a state of ecstasy. After Mass he begins hearing confessions of the streams of men & women who wait through the night at the church door in all kinds of weather. Confessions are finished at 1 in the afternoon; then the bearded Capuchin sits down to his single meal of the day: a bunch of herbs and a few small pieces of bread...
Agitation for the elimination of loyalty oath requirements for Navy ROTC students spread Saturday afternoon when representatives of five Harvard organizations decided to recommend to their respective groups that they band together for both local and nation-wide action...
Outstanding performances by Crimson runners in all distances were the most encouraging indication of a most encouraging afternoon, Jaakko said after the meet. The addition of a host of sophomores to this year's running squad has converted the running department from a very weak unit to what appears to be a powerhouse...