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Word: captors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hills of eastern Cuba, 50 U.S. and Canadian citizens were caught-some to their own amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Caught in a War | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations involving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History's Lost Opportunity | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...earned Melchior something less than an Equity minimum. As the tenor untied himself, grabbed a deer rifle and hustled out the door, his captor audience skedaddled back out the gate, taking with it $140,000 in boodle (jewelry and cash). Police bag by week's end: two of the four badmen, all but about $40,000 of their loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...children's book by Mrs. Margaret C. Hubbard, house mother of Holmes Hall, will be published Monday. The book, Boss Chombale, is based on Mrs. Hubbard's nine years of personal experience in Africa as a U.S. diplomat, a journalist, and a captor of wild animals, and is intended for children from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe House Mother to Publish Book for Children About Africa | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

Eugenie's captor hauled his prize ashore, propped her up in a taxicab and trundled her through his village as a curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Original Mermaid | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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