Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warsaw, Erich Koch, former Gauleiter of East Prussia and Hitler's Reichskommissar in occupied Ukraine, stood accused of responsibility or complicity in the gas-chamber and concentration-camp deaths of 4,000,000 Russians, 160,000 Jews and 72,000 Poles. After nearly a decade in prison and four months on trial, frail emaciated Erich Koch, now 62, was still defiant. Coughing into a handkerchief, sipping tea and porridge to rally his strength, Koch made long, fiery speeches in Polish in his own defense, disputing the court's right to try him, insisting that Polish Communists were guilty...
Last week most of the U.D.N. marched into Janio's camp, even though he has no links to the party. Leading was Publisher Carlos Lacerda, U.D.N.'s fiery Chamber of Deputies floor leader and long an enemy of Quadros (he once called Quadros "dirty inside...
...they aren't doing much good." Another grumbled wearily that "these people go out and grab every _ beetle they can lay hands on and bring jars and jars of them back to us." Expeditioneers ignore such grousing. Said one jungle-happy scholar: "Oxford's a terrific base camp...
Mystery Man Guterma, 43, claims to have been born in Irkutsk, Siberia, though he speaks like a native New Yorker. His story is that he went to the Philippines in 1938 by way of China, managed to escape a World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered as a trader, also obtained a bankroll from Philippine and Italian businessmen, which he brought to Florida in 1950 to start a project growing flaxlike ramie fiber. He then moved to Manhattan and with a partner opened McGrath Securities, a firm that often floated stock in his new companies...
Psyche-Semantic. Slinking away in disgrace, Henderson and Romilayu next camp with an ugly-mannered tribe called the Wariri. Here Henderson redeems himself by lifting a previously unbudgeable wooden idol during a riotous rainmaking ritual. He is acclaimed as Sungo, the Rain King, blushingly dons the transparent green silk bloomers of his office and becomes a friend and confidant of Dahfu, the Wariri's chief...