Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his involuntary Wanderjahr Wissenback crossed frontiers half a dozen times, rode next to German officers in trains. Once he had his picture taken with a cheerful group of Italian soldiers - he has the snapshot to prove it. Food was a problem at times, and Wissenback lived on raw fish and turnips for several days, but he was in fair shape and only a few pounds under weight when he reached his base again...
...echoes with Kansas and Texas accents. Like a quarter million or so predecessors, the studying teachers flock to the Grove before and after classes. On rustic benches around trees named for the States, they foregather to 1) exchange impressions of the advanced intellectual life, 2) make dates to be snapshot in front of Alma Mater's gilt statue, 3) talk about exotic eating possibilities downtown, 4) plan tours of the city's features, from Chinatown, Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, to the nightclubs (where many will probably enrage waiters by asking for nonalcoholic drinks...
...Your father is now in London with the American Red Cross. Your mother and your sister, Gretchen, have received the snapshot of you and the General...
...like a torn and faded snapshot that turns out to be crucial evidence at a murder trial, the Treasury's order may serve one long-term purpose. This was the only aspect of the census that really frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn...
...case you wish to use this letter and snapshot, for the sake of my daughter's future peace of mind please do not print my name or address. This village is so very small...