Word: contrabanding
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...American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled in delight to the downbeat of U.S. jazz and "boogy-voogy" crying '"Ooo, San Looey" as he gyrated...
...continent; the resolution will probably not name Guatemala, but the country's Communist trends will no doubt be well aired in the debate. Then the U.S. may seek pledges for effective action against Communist travel between countries, propaganda in hemisphere mails, influence in labor unions and traffic in contraband arms...
Expensive Trade. Lap Sap Mei and Macao are an enticement to the thousands of desperately poor junk people in Hong Kong who are ready to risk their lives to earn a few hundred dollars running contraband. Under U.N. pressure, British authorities have stepped up their efforts to enforce the embargo...
...Typical contraband seized by the British last month: auto clutch plates hidden under a load of fish, 2,712 Ibs. of scrap iron disguised as ballast, 82 tons of asphalt passing as dirty, but legal, coal tar. The British concede that about 200 tons of merchandise - about 1,000th of Hong Kong's intake-gets across to the Communists every week. Even with what goes in to Macao and Lap Sap Mei, it is not enough for the building of industrial China. Only peace and a resumption of normal trade would do that...
...young 'Ntoni sank to the running of contraband, stabbed the local policeman in a brawl and was sentenced to five years at hard labor. Dishonored by her brother's crime, the younger sister ran away and became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...