Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great march was on. All over Italy, but mostly on the brown, exhausted earth of Calabria and Sicily, thousands of peasants were taking by force what they wanted most in life-land. Swinging picks and axes, they invaded the big estates and began to work the soil...
...Soviet," which meant in plain Bulgarian that like Tito he opposed his country's economic exploitation by Moscow. "Kostovism," explained Bulgaria's new boss, Vulko Chervenkov, "is nothing but Titoism on Bulgarian soil." Through the summer and fall, Kostov and ten alleged accomplices were prepared for another big Communist show trial. It was reported that Kostov was flown to Moscow for "rehearsals." His jailers persuaded Kostov to write a 32,000 word "confession" of his anti-Russian activities, including the customary self-accusations that he had been a paid U.S. agent and had plotted the overthrow...
Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson, 40, of Red Wing, Minn.-the first woman Ambassador in U.S. history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new job, but of his own small triumph over bureaucracy. At first the State Department, which pays the overseas passage of Ambassadors' wives, ruled that since there had never before been any dealings with an Ambassador's husband, he would have to pay his own way. Anderson kept demanding...
...good cause for "skepticism," and the Louisville Courier-Journal scouted the story from the start, bitterly lamenting: "Not the least of the tragedies of our era of mass communications is the power possessed by little men with loud voices and a vestigial sense of decency. Wherever the target is big enough, there the scavengers gather to demonstrate with what sickening ease the dead may be slandered...
...Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which had looked no farther down than his ankles. Once seated...