Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong men go mad over the lush Antinea, which is a great mistake. Under her spell, Legionnaire Aumont kills his pal in a fit of jealousy. When he in turn gets buried in a sandstorm, Antinea is left to a pulsating game of chess with the household embalmer, whose tongue has been cut out-because he talked out of turn. For determined viewers who stick it out to the very end, the newsreel may still save...
...chess team placed third in a three-cornered tournament with Princeton and Columbia at the Marshall Club in New York during vacation. A Yale team, which was scheduled to compete, didn't show...
East-West Chess...
Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...
Into Power. Peru's new strong man is short, pudgy, but light on his feet. He has a sharp nose, bright little eyes, receding hair. He plays chess, loves bullfights and opera, enjoys an occasional pisco but does not smoke. With his wife and two sons he lives in a modest house on the unfashionable side of Avenida Arequipa...