Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm the storm. He signed a law, already passed by the Assembly, abolishing the corps, ordered the arrest of the corps commander, a hulking ex-wrestler named Kim Yong Keun. The Assembly was not pacified. It refused to elect a Rhee man as Lee's successor, instead chose Kim Sung Soo, 60, wealthy head of the anti-Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party and respected member of Seoul's Rotary Club...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff, 54, Belgian-born Russian who chose England as his adopted country, won the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order for his legendary exploits in World War II; of a brain tumor; in London. When the war began, Peniakoff was a sugar manufacturer in Egypt. He joined the British army, persuaded the brass to let him organize a unit of Commandos, who dubbed him "Popski" because of his tongue-tangling name. "Popski's Private Army" (its officially approved title) spent most of the war behind Axis lines in Africa and Italy, reconnoitered, freed prisoners...
Pictorial, widely-read Life magazine however, chose to emphasize the Communist campaign to make McGee a "pawn in the world propaganda war." According to Life, McGee's "bare chance" of escaping the electric chair after his first sentencing vanished when the Communist took up his cause. Whether McGee was guilty or not (and Mr. Luce seemed pretty sure that he was), it is hard to see how Life could so blithely overlook the fact that McGee's first two trials were so badly conducted that they not even satisfy the high court of Mississippi...
This year, as election time approached, a fusion party decided to upset the Whig pork barrel. The fusionists chose as their champion a sixtyish, reform-minded Kru tribesman named Dihdwo Twe (pronounced Daydaw Tooey), who at the age of 15 had hitchhiked his way to an education in the U.S. and friendship with Mark Twain. Tubman, although he has more than a political grudge against his opponent-Twe is married to Tubman's ex-wife-did not interfere with Twe's campaign. For a while it looked as if Liberia might have a real election...
...Nazis, though they herded millions into death camps, made an effort to cover up their iniquities. The Russians broadcast and filmed their relentless show trials of the '30's, but they chose to execute the accused in the privacy of an NKVD cellar. But the Chinese Communists have put on a public spectacle of death which the 20th Century has not witnessed since the Russian Revolution in 1917. Since the Red Terror began in China two months ago, the scene had become so familiar from a dozen broadcasts and newspaper stories that its enormity had almost been lost...