Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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While eating our dinner we noticed a little old lady dressed in black, smiling and nodding to us from a distant table. We were about the only males present. "Lord," said Andrews, my comrade, "they keep flirting over here even when they are up in the eighties." Presently, we were surprised to find our lady crossing over and standing at our table...
...scraped the dishes clean while eating. The general treatment was quite decent and humane, but the control of the entire camp was lax and very inefficient. For instance, the delivery of the mail from the men's to the women's camp (which was only 20 kilometers distant) took about three weeks, often being lost altogether. This anxiety, together with all the other ordeals, caused many to have a nervous breakdown. There were many different types of people among this large group of men. Jews and non-Jews were together&151;unlike German camps. There were Germans, Austrians...
...movement for an eight-hour day, The Nation in 1865 uttered a gloomy warning: "The time is not far distant when all things will be in common and grass grow in Broadway...
They are here. White ghosts gliding through whiteness. A distant roar, as of cannons . . .Blood in the snow. A cry, "Forward, over the top! I can't any more, the snow is too deep. Deep and heavy. The metal freezes to my fingers. No, it is hot, it burns, it burns them right off. I must hold on tight. Tighter. Now it is all still. Not a sound. Just a hum, the hum of silence. On and on. I don't hear any more. I don't see any more. I can't any more...
...Experience has taught us that Latin peoples, yes, even the peoples of distant Japan, are incomparably closer to us in their attitude toward life and philosophy than our 'Germanic cousins' on the British Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much...