Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched in three places. Kolesiak was only slightly burned, but the family dog ran away and refused to return home...
Britain had stood aloof from the negotiations that followed, though her attitude now seemed less hostile. France and Germany had done most of the parleying. "Whenever they agreed on a point," explained one planner, "the other nations would follow suit." Some German officials yearned for the return of profitable cartels and combines again. U.S. pressure and the Bonn government stifled their longings...
...appointed burgomaster of Finsterwolde. When the Reds fired the uncooperative tax collector and social security chief, Tuin wrote The Hague and got the discharged employees reinstated. Later the Communists voted illegal benefits to striking public-work employees. Tuin wrote another letter to The Hague, got the project vetoed by return mail. A Red alderman snarled: "We will settle with people of your sort...
...strings. The Casadesus family sat down to their closely banked pianos, Robert on one side, facing Gaby and Jean. Then, radiating their pleasure, they played Bach's concerto with all of the vigor, grace, delicacy and perfect teamwork it deserves. Carnegie Hall gave them a Thanksgiving hand in return...
...massive history, The Second World War, it was quite a party. It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two. When Churchill, with a twinkle, accused Molotov of delaying his return from the U.S. so that he could shake his NKVD guards and have a visit on the town in Manhattan, Molotov turned, Churchill thought, "rather serious." Stalin played it for a laugh: "It was not to New York he went. He went to Chicago, where the other gangsters live." At 1:30, after...