Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nook or cranny of the world stage was too remote or too dusty to escape the stagehands' attention: ¶ The Russian ambassador to Washington dropped into American Red Cross headquarters with a $25,000 contribution to the fund for relief from the recent East Coast floods...
...Sooner the Better. Their shrewdest move was designed to force Adenauer to deal with the East German satellite in spite of his determination not to: they gave East Germany control of all civilian traffic and trade between West Germany and West Berlin, which must cross East German territory. "The sooner the politicians of Bonn and West Berlin realize that they cannot undermine the East German regime, the better it will be for the populace of West Berlin," said East Germany's Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht...
When it was over, with some 1,500 Maltese killed and 30,000 homes lost, the British awarded the island a George Cross, voted $90 million for repair, forgot about Malta again...
...tree trunks and housetops, almost daily added other places to the disaster list. Orissa's finance minister said: "We still do not know what s happening because we have not made contact with 25% of the villages." After a flying survey of the subcontinental ruin, the International Red Cross's Dr. François Daubenton estimated that the floods had wrecked 28,000 villages, damaged or destroyed the homes of 45 million people. There was no way to count the cost. "In my 35 years of public health experience in Europe, Africa and Asia," said Dr. Daubenton...
Each day a knot of government men, Red Cross representatives, and journalists gather at the Hong Kong border of Red China to watch for freed prisoners who straggle across from the tiny Chinese border town of Shumchun. By now, the watchers are accustomed to the look left by long imprisonment and hammering interrogation, the attrition of hunger, worry and disease. But they were still shocked by one figure that came from behind the barbed wire. Dressed in a black Chinese gown and tattered brown cap, Roman Catholic Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni looked dazedly out at the free world with...