Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...
...that cannot be.'' It could not. Even as Dr. Fisher gazed nostalgically across the Thames at the Archiepiscopal Lambeth Palace that was no longer his home. Queen Elizabeth was granting him a life peerage that fixed him forever with the scorned surname. He is now Baron Fisher of Lambeth...
...court pressed Baron von Freudiger to explain why he had not warned Jews in rural Hungary of scheduled deportations and the fate that awaited them. "By the time we realized what Auschwitz was, 300,000 people from Hungary had already gone," replied the baron. "What could we have done? There are people here who say they were not told to escape, but 50% of the people who tried to escape were captured and killed. And others say, 'Why did you tell them to escape?'" Snapped a judge: "I don't think that is an answer...
...Jewish boy, Eichmann furiously scribbled notes to his lawyer; his mouth twitched, and he ran his tongue over his teeth. At times, his facial tics seemed uncontrollable. He has obviously lost weight, and his pale blue eyes show anxiety and strain. The physical change was emphasized last week when Baron von Freudiger was asked if he could recognize Eichmann. The baron stared at the defendant for a long time, then said: "In my memory lives the image of the lieutenant colonel in a smart uniform standing with his legs astride, his hand on his holster, shouting at me from...
Died. Cheng-ting T. Wang, 79, dapper Chinese statesman, high-ranking Rotarian, wealthy cotton and coal baron, polished diplomat, Y.M.C.A. official, who returned from Yale with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1911 to help topple the Manchu dynasts, served the struggling Republic of China as Foreign Minister three times between 1922 and 1931, Prime Minister for a month in 1922, Ambassador to the U.S. in 1937 and 1938, moved to Hong Kong after World War II because China was being "enslaved by Communism"; of cancer; in Hong Kong...