Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headed for Oklahoma City. In the law offices of Richardson, Shartel, Cochran & Pruet, he found his man, now a prosperous oil lawyer. Godbey spotted him in the hall, blurted out, "I have a divorce case." For a minute, Lawyer Pruet eyed the stooped, grey-haired stranger. Then he turned away, muttering "Wait a minute." Godbey drew a .38 and shot Pruet in the back twice, walked out of the office and vanished into the late afternoon crowd...
...small grey building on Paris Quai d'Orsay, tucked away between the French National Assembly and the former Foreign Ministry, lives Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot, Assembly president and perennial mayor of Lyon. In his pale green salon, Herriot last week received several diplomatic callers. They settled on red-upholstered, gilt Louis XV chairs, beneath five huge crystal chandeliers, to discuss one of Europe's great hopes: Western Union. They got nowhere. Britain and France were deeply divided...
...snowy Vermion Mountains a few miles away, the Markos guerrillas heard of the festival. Through the passes mule trains began to move, some carrying ammunition and food, others empty and ready for loot. Supported by heavy machine guns, bazookas and mortars, 3,000 rebels attacked in foggy darkness. Before morning Naousa was in Communist hands...
...with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
Every shop in Naousa was plundered, even the barbershops, from which razors and hair tonic were carried away. The two-story hospital was blown up with land mines. Nine factories were destroyed, including a textile mill which employed 1,000, the biggest in the Balkans. When a workman asked why the means of livelihood of innocent people should be thus snatched away, a rebel answered: "How else are we going to get you people to come to the hills with...