Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rope Went Slack. Down the dark opening, her mother heard Kathy crying, tried to find out her position. "Kathy, Kathy, is your head up?" she called. "Yes, it is," Kathy sobbed. "Is your head down?" her mother asked. "Yes, it is," came Kathy's voice, thin and frightened. Then there was only the dismayed crying of a child beginning to realize that her mother was not going to make everything all right...
Policemen came and lowered a rope. They hoped to slip it over Kathy's head and shoulders. They pulled gently, felt it tighten, then catch. They stopped, afraid that the noose might have caught around her neck. There was no longer any sound at all from the well...
Then, in the glare of the television lights, a doctor stepped into the bucket and was lowered into the shaft. A few minutes later, the announcement came at last over the loudspeaker: "Kathy is dead and apparently has been dead since she was last heard speaking." Kathy's body had been found just below the tunneled opening. Her knees were wedged against her chest. Kathy had fallen into a coma, and then died because her cramped body could not get enough oxygen. There was no pain in her face...
Where Alexander Came From. When it became clear that economic pressure would not dislodge Tito, the Cominform decided on a more drastic strategy. The new base of operations against Tito's Yugoslavia was to be Macedonia, the wild, barren stretch of country which is distinguished in history chiefly for sending Alexander the Great into the world...
Paradoxically, Titoism is a consequence not of Communist weakness but of Communist strength. Before the war, few national Communist parties questioned Russia's leadership. But when the Reds actually conquered power, or came close to it, in half a dozen European countries, personal ambition and the patriotism of a Yugoslav or a Bulgar or a Frenchman, even though Communist, was apt to be stronger than loyalty to Moscow...