Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists harvested most heavily in the tiny clearings of Finland's northern forests, where impoverished smallholders try to farm their skimpy tracts in the summer and seek lumber-camp jobs the rest of the time. This year, when the big pulp and paper firms had no jobs at all to offer in the pineries, the ruling Agrarians complacently tried to hold the peat-bog farmers and other workers of the land with sky-high agricultural subsidies. The Communists, led by handsome Hertta Kuusinen,* shouted that the men of the forests wanted jobs, not fatter butter prices-and took five...
What Nikita Khrushchev so proudly calls "the Socialist Camp" is an armed camp, and not since the Hungarian revolt itself has the naked face of tyranny been so apparent as since the recent execution of Imre Nagy. Last week the U.S. reported to the U.N. that at least 100 imprisoned Nagy supporters are now facing trial in Hungary, and Belgrade reported that six more Hungarians had been executed. At this particular moment, the big boss of this armed camp descended on East Germany, the most heavily occupied (33 divisions) ramparts of his empire, breathing defiance and confidence...
...before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last train out of the country, and a sympathetic Thai captain cleared his papers at the Chinese border. Berrigan has never forgotten that the Thais saved him from a prison camp...
...language of this ingroup, and we reject the death-wish symbolism of the dark shirt and black stockings. The square has come full circle, so to speak. The hipster today is exactly what the tourist doesn't see. What he sees are the other-directed camp followers making themselves over in the image of an in-group they never knew...
...first hostage camp was Thomas Mosness, 22, a bespectacled Navy airman from Ames, Iowa. He had a .45-cal. pistol and gunbelt given him by his captors. He practices fast draw with the rebels, said he is 'just like one of them.' Further in the hills, I reached a main rebel headquarters, where the 26th of July [rebel] flag flies, a clerk typist pounds out war orders, and eight elderly civilian hostages live with no complaints. 'Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway...