Word: butted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed...
Kostov had been ousted from power last spring for being "anti-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...
But Kostov would not play. When charges of espionage and treason were read to him, he cried: "It is not true!" Stunned, the presiding judge asked Rostov if he repudiated his earlier confession. "Yes, I do," said Rostov quietly.
He dedicated buildings, inaugurated cattle shows, addressed miners' rallies. Wherever he went he told his audiences that the atmosphere in Santiago was enough to choke him, that he had fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a...
Turning on the Motors. After a month of such stumping, Gonzalez' coalition of Radicals, Liberals and Conservatives was properly aroused and ready to slap down the plotters whoever they might be. Leaders of the three parties answered his call for a conference. Affable and confident, his dignity regained, Gonzalez...