Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists without establishing a dictatorship, promptly promised an amnesty for guerrillas and political prisoners, thousands of whom are not Communists. Sophoulis, however, is 86; he can remember the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Handicapped by his age and a record of political vacillation, Sophoulis inherited a state of civil war and a wrecked national economy. He did not look like a man who could steer Greece to peace and safety; but Washington had no better ideas, perhaps because Greece had no better politicians...
...haired Madga Lupescu, who went through a provisional marriage ceremony last July when Magda appeared to be dying, decided to make it good & legal this week or maybe next. In Rio de Janeiro there would be a sort of Double Carrick B. knot: the first twist civil, the second Greek Orthodox...
Died. Hans Kahle, 48, commander of the Loyalist International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, original of the General in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; after a stomach operation; in Ludwigslust, Soviet Zone of Germany. The Russians had rewarded Kahle's faithful Party work by making him chief of police of Mecklenburg state...
...magic string that Western Air Lines' President Terrell C. Drinkwater had used was the telephone wire in his hangar-office at Los Angeles' Municipal Airport. Over it one morning last week came news from Washington that the Civil Aeronautics Board had finally, okayed Western's sale of its Denver-Los Angeles route to United Air Lines for a handsome...
Criminal proceedings were brought only against the associations, which cannot serve a prison term; officers of the associations, who conceivably could, were named in a civil suit only. Despite such dove-roaring, however, Washington expected the flow of indictments to continue. For Tom Clark's crusade was so patently political that almost every businessman could expect some accusation of one sort or another before next year's election...