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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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His captors in Magdeburg threw Private Moncaster into jail. When he tried to escape, they put him in solitary on bread & water. After six months, a Russian officer came and told Moncaster he had been sentenced to three years in prison for "espionage."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flop | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last October, at his own pleading, Moncaster was released from prison, on condition that he assume a German name and go to work on a slave-labor project at Leuna, along with a group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

"A man holding office must look to his reputation," he began. "Now that I have been accused of robbing the public purse, I intend to show by documents that these charges are false. And since Prensa and Nación have echoed these uncalled-for calumnies, I now intend to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: A Man's Reputation | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

On a table lay a big white envelope. The envelope, said Perón, contained a statement listing his assets before he took office; it had been sealed for three years. He persuaded New York Timesman Milton Bracker and the U.P.'s William Horsey to open it. Then he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: A Man's Reputation | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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