Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witness Jacob Werber, German, remembered how he was "locked into a dog's cage, a chain was put around his neck, food was handed him in a bowl, and he had to eat like...
When fiery, chain-smoking Manuel Acuna Roxas announced last year that he would run for the Presidency of the Philippines, many an island politico winked significantly over his cigar. There is but one Philippine party, the Nacionalistas. According to all the rules of island politics, Roxas would soon make a deal with aging President Sergio Osmeña, withdraw in the old man's favor...
...succeed Beria, Stalin chose Colonel General Sergei Nikolaevich Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
...annoyed when newspapers, as they often do, call her 60. She has a Perleberg birth certificate dated February 27, 1888, and after producing it last week, added: "It has cost me so many tears, you have no idea. I should wear my birth certificate on a chain around my neck!" She is bubbling with health, and looks somewhat like a motherly Hausfrau, which she isn't. ("There's not an atom of Hausfrau in me., It's really dreadful...
...foreign departments of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Shell Oil got on the wire, each offering to build a chain of super-service stations, hotels and numerous motels, along the drowsy highways of the islands...