Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanksgiving night, four years ago, two Seattle undertakers, John F. Hennessy and Earl J. Cassedy, had a snack of cold turkey sandwiches with a friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile...
...Pitch of A. Both will be badly needed to dispel the fog in Beirut. At its first meeting in Paris two years ago, U.S. Delegation Chairman William Benton had likened the general program of UNESCO to "a pork barrel floating on a cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks...
Last week all Athens knew why. Some years ago middle-aged Stavroula had married her handsome young chauffeur, a staunch Communist. A divorce was soon arranged, and the affair seemed forgotten. The party, however, has a long memory-and Stavroula had been issued a party card...
About a year ago, a comrade appeared at her back door to ask a slight favor: "Nothing dangerous, nothing incriminating, you understand ..." A young girl whose family had been killed in the 1944 uprising was in trouble with the police. Of course, the affair would blow over in a couple of days-meanwhile, could Stavroula keep the girl out of sight? She agreed. The girl stayed on for weeks...
...weeks ago, part of the chain was seized by the police. Fifteen people in Athens were arrested, including Stavroula. She poured out the whole story to interrogators, sobbing over & over: "If you once start working with the Communists, it is impossible to escape...