Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, a rash of "sabotage" trials had broken out in Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much...
The chief, holding all the cards, refused. Tired and shaken, Chanis capitulated, then went to bed. He had been in office almost four months (as successor to the late President Diaz Arosemena) and seemed a bit relieved at the prospect of returning to his medical practice. The victors rounded up...
Tony Lavelli, Yale's All-America 1948, 49 basketball star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract...
It was no way to get rid of the horde of newsmen and their presence was enough to try the patience of any elderly suitor. O'Dwyer was miffed at the press anyway; only one out of the ten New York newspapers had supported the mayor in his campaign...
When that outburst failed to clear out the unashamed newsmen, the mayor warned that "either you get out of here this afternoon or I will." While he damned all the hullabaloo as an unreasonable invasion of his privacy, the newsmen thought the mayor's coy conduct a bit unreasonable...