Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual people who wander along the roads will be harmless-defeated and broken men, dazed women, children who have already forgotten the Nazi salute. But the Poles and Czechs who expel them will be thinking of the past, and of the future. The German minorities in eastern Europe were not harmless, either as guests or, later, as masters...
Thereafter, Bank Clerk Service answered to the epithet of "Bard" and became Whitehorse's leading celebrity. After repeating his first success with Ballads of a Cheechako and a popular novel of the Gold Rush, The Trail of '98, he was free to live and wander as he liked...
When Maclntyre's mind began to wander, Zamperini threatened "to report him," which brought the red-headed gunner back to normal for a few days. On the 33rd day he whispered in his agony, "How long will I last?" and Zamperini said gently, "You'll die during the night." Zamperini was a good prophet...
...mainstays at the big table. Thirty or more experts sat at little tables around the room. Churchill, while he was there, often consulted Attlee. When he returned from London, Attlee had less to say than Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Truman, a brisk and affable chairman, did not wander from the point as Roosevelt used to do. Some correspondents said that Stalin looked old and tired. But returning U.S. delegates said that Uncle Joe never looked better...
...Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch let his gaze wander with an air of unconcerned, conscious superiority over the crowd. The characteristic twist on the left side of his mouth seemed to mock the spectators...