Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story came to light last week during a formal Greek army court-martial. It happened at Klidi, a mountain village on the strategic Kozane-Florina road. Klidi's 600 inhabitants are mostly illiterate and know little of democracy; as for the civil war, many of their kin fought with the government, many with the guerrillas. The only thing the people of Klidi knew for sure was that they wanted to hold on to their rich cornfields. For that reason, they had collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation; for that reason, they obeyed the rule of their proedros...
...mistresses. They had little choice, for Dimitrios had power enough, if they resisted, to bring harm to their hornes, their children or their cornfields. Recently, the situation was complicated by the fact that Dimitrios fell in love with his son's girl. He solved that problem, as the court-martial investigation showed, by denouncing his wife and son to the Communist guerrillas as "fascists." The guerrillas killed both. Dimitrios married the girl and, as a good patriot, renamed her Frederika, after Greece's Queen...
Their heads shorn, their eyes red-rimmed, the 60 faced the court-martial last week. Seven were sentenced to death, 14 to life imprisonment; the rest were set free. Dimitrios got off with a life sentence. Said Anastasia Hadsis, whose husband was executed by a firing squad: "Judas has betrayed us and lives...
...week Small, who has come to regard himself as the Sheik's official cinema Boswell, hastily announced that he had his script in hand and was ready to begin shooting next month. With 20th Century-Fox willing to talk the matter over, Small was threatening Grippo with a court injunction and loudly protesting that he had thought of the movie first. Grippo, who also claimed to have a script on the way, said: "I'm of Italian extraction, same as he [Valentino] was, and I've been a fan of his for years...
Premium. In Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, York Deas explained that the betting slips found in his pocket must have come with the secondhand pants he bought the night before...