Word: crypt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killing individual Trotskyites and killing a nation are not the same. For eight years, the people of Soviet Germany crouched in the crypt that Soviet might and Walter Ulbricht's Communist regime built for them, unable to sit in comfort or stand in freedom. Then they rose up, and Walter Ulbricht's masterpiece began to show cracks...
...corpse in the crypt had surely once been some exalted leader of Palenque civilization. The hieroglyphics on the stone sarcophagus alone, estimated Dr. Ruz, had been 25 years in the carving. The original owners of the six skeletons outside had been sacrificed to guard the tomb...
...Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy
Smoke from a Crypt. Finally, with radio direction-finder cars, Greek army and police officers got on the trail. One beam led to an obscure chicken farm in the seacoast village of Glyfada, eight miles from Athens; another pointed to a carpenter's modest house in an Athens suburb. One night last November, the government raided both...
...chicken farm they found a busy Red rooster named Philip Lazarides and, artfully concealed behind a wall of his house, a crypt equipped with a high-powered American radio transmitter, a newly made Russian receiving set, and a file of ciphers which gave them the key to the government's collection of coded messages. At the carpenter's home, at first they found nothing. But after searching, a policeman spotted a hole no larger than a golfball at the rear of the house. He shouted down the hole, "Come out!" and jumped back with astonishment when a muffled...