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These ethnic ghetto areas included the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York, which later became notable as predominantly Jewish, and East Harlem, which became home to a large Puerto Rican community in the 1950s.
Organized Jewish resistance occurred in nearly every large ghetto and concentration camp ( Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, among many others ), and the Roma themselves similarly attempted to resist the Nazis ' extermination.
As time went by, the area of the ghetto was slowly decreased until there was a small ghetto, made up mostly of intelligentsia and middle – upper class, and a large ghetto that held the rest of the Warsaw Jews.
Whenever he went into the large ghetto, Szpilman would visit a friend, Jehuda Zyskind, who worked as a smuggler, trader, driver or carrier when the need arose.
After hearing this news and completing whatever other business he had in the large ghetto, Szpilman would head back to his house in the small ghetto.
His first job was as part of a column of workers the Germans were using to demolish the walls of the large ghetto, for now that most of the Jews there had been deported, it was being reclaimed by the rest of the city.
In October, the Romanians deported a large number of Jews after forcing them into a ghetto, where Celan translated William Shakespeare's Sonnets and continued to write his own poetry, all the while being exposed to traditional Yiddish songs and culture.
In May 1941 a large Jewish ghetto was formed by German administration.
His legendary career and his assistance to mutants in trouble-such as donating a large sum of money to the Milton Keynes ghetto in " Mutie's Luck "-has made him an icon to Earth's mutants.
Most notable are main market ( Karls Square ), the Jewish ghetto and synagogue, very old and large Jewish cemetery, the St. Bartholomeus Church from the 13th century ( work of architect Peter Parler ).
In the days just before the liberation of Lodz by the Red Army, Biebow ordered large burial pits to be dug in the local cemetery, intending that the Gestapo execute the remaining 877 Jews who served as a clean-up crew in the ghetto.
The ghetto had been transformed into one large labor camp, where survival depended solely on the ability to work.
The first line of the song is particularly pertinent in that it asks the listener whether he has ever lived down in the ghetto ; support for segregation was still widespread in the southern United States at the time and Lynyrd Skynyrd risked alienating a large number of potential fans before the group became an established act.
The Snakes ( cousins Larceny and Trife ) who represent the enraged attitude expressed in a large number of America ’ s youth, MC Klepto, who offered insight on a life of “ boostin ' and hustlin '”, and Lil ' Kim, ( a. k. a Big Momma or The Lieutenant ), the only female in the group, who showed the ghetto life from a woman ’ s point of view.

large and was
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
His hand was large and square and heavily tanned.
in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.
Waddell, the newspaperman, was a fellow in his middle forties, with a graying crewcut, heavy-framed glasses, and a large jaw padded with fat.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.
Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.
It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).
Over the door was a board with large, inept lettering: home sweet home.
Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
The large jar was brushed with Creek-Turn green toner and sponged off.
Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.
The diameter of this bronchial artery was much too large for it to be a mere vasa vasorum ( figs. 16, 23, 24 ).
The intimal surface of the aorta was covered with confluent, yellow-brown, hard, friable plaques along its entire course, and there was a marked narrowing of the orifices of the large major visceral arteries.
The parenchyma was slightly hyperemic in the apex of the left lung, and there were several firm, gray, fibrocalcific nodules measuring as large as 3 mm..
The small and large intestines were filled with gas, and the jejunum was dilated to about 2 times its normal circumference.

large and reached
However, before RAT-C reached initial operational status in 1960 aboard the large US Navy destroyer-leader Norfolk, its name was changed to the present ASROC.
In jurisdictions that do not have a strong allegiance to a large body of precedent, parties have less a priori guidance and must often leave a bigger " safety margin " of unexploited opportunities, and final determinations are reached only after far larger expenditures on legal fees by the parties.
Brachiopods are also abundant ; they include productids, some of which ( for example, Gigantoproductus ) reached very large ( for brachiopods ) size and had very thick shells, while others like Chonetes were more conservative in form.
Astronomers did not observe large amounts of water following the collisions, and later impact studies found that fragmentation and destruction of the cometary fragments in an ' airburst ' probably occurred at much higher altitudes than previously expected, with even the largest fragments being destroyed when the pressure reached, well above the expected depth of the water layer.
However, large wild males can weigh up to and males in captivity, such as Travis the Chimp, have reached.
Darwin was a large man who gave up weighing himself when he reached 336 pounds ( 24. 3 stones, 153 kg ).
" In film as in society at large, America ’ s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable ," said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s.
:" Guerrilla warfare is an inevitable form of struggle at a time when the mass movement has actually reached the point of an uprising and when fairly large intervals occur between the ' big engagements ' in the civil war.
After an agreement was reached with the European Union ( EU ) to increase Honduras's banana quota to the EU, the large banana companies were avid for additional land for increased production to meet the anticipated new demand from Europe.
Up until the mid-3rd century, the Roman state ’ s payments appear to have been unbalanced, with far more products sent to Britain, to support its large military force ( which had reached c. 53, 000 by the mid-2nd century ), than were extracted from the island.
From the mid-3rd century onwards, Britain no longer received such a wide range and extensive quantity of foreign imports as it did during the earlier part of the Roman period ; however, vast quantities of coin from continental mints reached the island, whilst there is historical evidence for the export of large amounts of British grain to the continent during the mid-4th century.
From 1405 to 1433, Admiral Zheng He led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several voyages to the Western Ocean ( Chinese name for the Indian Ocean ) and reached the coastal country of East Africa ( see Zheng He for reference ).
In such large juries the unanimity rule would be unrealistic and verdicts were reached by majority.
He took silk in 1816, and from this time till the close of 1834 he was the most successful lawyer at the bar ; he was particularly effective before a jury, and his income reached £ 18, 500, a large sum for that period.
Arabs first reached the island between the seventh and ninth centuries, and a wave of Bantu-speaking East African migrants arrived around 1000 CE and introduced zebu, a type of long-horned humped cattle, which were kept in large herds.
The largest known species reached heights in the region of at the shoulder and weights up to, while exceptionally large males may have exceeded.
By the mid-1980s, Milken's network of high-yield bond buyers ( notably Fred Carr's Executive Life Insurance Company and Tom Spiegel's Columbia Savings & Loan ) had reached a size which enabled him to raise large amounts of money very quickly.
While most clusters become dispersed before a large proportion of their members have reached the white dwarf stage, the number of white dwarfs in open clusters is still generally much lower than would be expected, given the age of the cluster and the expected initial mass distribution of the stars.
However, many more are reached, especially in rural areas, via loudspeaker broadcasts of radio programs that bring transmissions to large numbers of radioless households.
Crests have only been found on large, fully adult specimens of Pterodactylus, indicating that this was a display structure and only developed when individuals reached maturity.
Therefore, it seems that the large crests only developed in males when they reached their large, adult size, making the sex of immature specimens difficult to establish from partial remains.
They incorporated large numbers of the people they conquered into their army, with the result that by the time they reached Sierra Leone, the rank and file of their army consisted mostly of coastal peoples ; the Mane were its commanding group.
Clarkson told the men to clear the land until they reached a large cotton tree.

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