Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a day or two before Nehru's arrival, the Yugoslav government concluded a three-day conference with ambassadors of the West, designed to reassure them that he had not been taken into the Russian camp. A communiqué was issued, announcing "a wide measure of agreement between the four Governments" (U.S., Britain, France and Yugoslavia). Within an hour after the ambassadors and Tito had basked together at a final lunch, the Yugoslav government announced an item that Tito had neglected to impart to his luncheon companions: he had just accepted Khrushchev's invitation to visit Moscow...
...Kastner and his friends pondered this dreadful bargain, the hostages in the case-Hungary's million-odd Jews-were rounded up at the rate of 12,000 a day and herded off to "labor camps" to wait their fate. The bargain was never consummated. Kastner's contacts overseas (one of them, Moshe Sharett, is now Israel's Prime Minister) told him to make a noncommittal answer and keep bargaining. Day after day as the bargainers waited through the spring and summer of 1944, packjammed trainloads of Jews chugged through the pleasant green Hungarian countryside to the camp...
...women stamped out, and in the freezing weather formed a laager (camp) at the foot of a statue of General Louis Botha, valiant warrior against the British in the Boer War. All night long and all the next day and night they stayed there, huddled in blankets and occasionally chanting, "Save the Constitution." Hoodlums tried to move them by throwing firecrackers, but the husbands of some of the women stood by and chased them off. Meanwhile, the women addressed letters to the people of South Africa; among them was a German immigrant who wrote: "I do not want to live...
Czech Composer Leos Janacek (Jenufa) was fascinated by Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel. From the House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. In 1928, in the last year of his life but still at the peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
...clear his conscience he sent a message to Jane Wood that he wanted to tell her the whole story of the robbery gang. She went up to the De Land state prison camp where Home confessed to her four other holdups, named five accomplices, including Miami Policemen Peter Balma and Lewis Womack. The two cops, said Home, picked out easy robbery victims while on their motorcycle rounds, gave the names and addresses to Home and his partner, Gerard Casselli, collected 25% of their take...