Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unbelieving Ears. As Kostov walked into the great hall of Sofia's Military Club, which had been rigged up as a courtroom, high Communists in the spectators gallery sat back smugly, waiting for him to cringe before his judges.
Thieving Eyes. Kostov was whisked from the courtroom. His co-defendants knew their parts, and stuck to them. Ex-Minister of Finance Ivan Stefanov, who confessed that he had been a spy for the British since 1932, passionately demanded that the Bulgarian people be on the lookout against such public...
The ten White Russians faced the bare pine tribunal in the People's Court at Sarajevo to hear judgment passed on them on charges of spying for their Russian homeland, which they had not seen in three decades (TIME, Dec. 12). The courtroom was packed. Men & women stood in...
The stiffest term-20 years at hard labor-went to 55-year-old Arseny Bore-movich, who admitted that he was "slightly guilty": he had done a bit of spying for Moscow, and during the war had sentenced 24 Yugoslav partisans to death while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia...
Even as a boy in Mexico, José had been an unworldly sort. But his golden voice and romantic profile soon had him performing at the Chicago Civic Opera, most notably as Nicias in Thais. He went into the movies, made a succession of highly successful musical films in Hollywood...