Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungary's Communist government recently reopened Kis Tarcsa, notorious Nazi concentration camp near Budapest. Of its 8,000 present inmates, 90% are Jews...
...outdoor theater, Actress Anderson had to howl down the throb of low-flying planes for an unsegregated audience of 10,000, probably the largest ever to see Medea. Total receipts, for seats in camp chairs or on the grassy slopes: more than $16,000. Six blocks away, the National, still obstinately grinding out minor movies and losing money, was half empty...
...four, thundered down Main Street in an impromptu match race for $5 a side. There also came the day when a riot was threatened after he single-handedly attacked a group of Italians and felled one of them with a stone; his father hustled Ben off to a logging camp until things cooled...
...story of how Joe Parkson, a lame vet, played by Robert Ryan, stalks a prosperous contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only...
...wounds. About 23,000 were carried off by the Reds to the 'people's democracies' for Marxist education. A few managed to escape and joined 17,000 refugee children in homes organized by energetic Queen Fredericka. One half-starved, trembling boy at one children's camp said: 'They came at night . . . We hid in the cellar but they dragged us out. They shot father outside the village, took mother away, and left me there.' When I asked him if he would rather be in some other place than his camp, the boy said...