Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violated Yugoslav sovereignty 32 times in one week. The State Department replied with a stiff, 3,000-word note which added up to a simple: "Not so." Most Americans began to realize that Tito, long billed as the paladin of Yugoslav democracy, was no democrat, and that he bore watching. What they did not know about him would fill several police archives, and perhaps...
Died. Frank Seaman Dymoke, 84, hereditary King's Champion,* whose family has held the office since 1377 and who himself bore the standard of England at the coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI; in London...
Russians tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...
...back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism that finally brought them back from the Diaspora. It was a new feeling of nationhood among a people united partly by religion (though among them were atheists), partly by race (though many bore no blood relation to the biblical tribesmen who were their "ancestors"), partly by tradition (though they included extreme political and social experimenters), but chiefly by fellow-suffering. Despite differences among them, they were all Jews to a world whose affection was inconstant and whose hatred through the ages had been...
German-born Richard Julius Hermann Krebs ("Jan Valtin") has been under fire again-this time real fire. In 1941, after publication of his autobiographical Out of the Night, U.S. leftists damned him as a former Gestapo agent (he said he had joined to bore from within) and a tattletale Communist who had owned to some strange deeds before his apostasy. Plain citizens began to wonder whether he was a fraud, a martyr or a marvel...