Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyers and brought charges against others. But news of the commission's work spread to such influential British newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian. In a House of Commons press conference a fortnight ago, two honorably discharged British soldiers, formerly wardens in a Nicosia detention camp, told of brutal beatings of prisoners. Said ex-Serviceman David Toon: "We felt it our duty to speak. We feel that people in this country, and government officials here, have no knowledge of the harsh treatment meted...
...first to nominate Charles Van Doren as the "Man of the Year." And in the even far more distant future, I would nominate this particular egghead as the 1960 replacement for Adlai Stevenson (if he were 35 by then). By way of politics, which camp claims Charlie Van Doren...
...snow-covered wilderness north of Lake Huron, Canada's uranium industry came of age last week. The occasion was the official opening of two big mines. Algom-Quirke and Algom-Nordic, in the world's richest uranium field, the Blind River camp. The mines were opened by Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the 84-year-old British mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon...
...time of the mass purges during the 1930s and begins with an angry rhapsody to all those who suffered death, punishment and exile. The hero, a Ukrainian Cossack named Hryhory Mnohohrishny, has been sentenced as "an enemy of the State" to 25 years at the slave-labor camp at Kolyma on the frozen Sea of Okhotsk. Now he is one of thousands of prisoners jammed into a 60-car convict train rolling across Siberia to the camp. As a counterpoint to the doomed men in the cattle cars, Author Bahriany describes the comforts of another train, also bound east, which...
...picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward their homes. The biggest problem of course is posed by the Russians: "We never learned to predict what a Russian soldier would do. Was he going to shoot? Be friendly? Look the other way? Help us out? Run us into a displaced...