Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in death he gave the Army a bad time. The Army was ready to bring his body back to the states, but could not locate any next-of-kin. Last week, after eleven months of looking, Pvt. Molotov's sister was found living in Manhattan. Said she: "Of course he is to come back. New York was his home. Karl loved this place...
...Tekhnika, had invented the electric arc, the electric light, the electric motor and high-tension power transmissions. And how had the capitalist U.S. utilized these Russian gifts to mankind? By inventing the electric chair, which, "lately, has been used more & more to do away with revolutionary workers condemned to death with the assistance of dirty police provocation...
Because of the lost supplies, Mukden's 2,500,000 civilians faced slow death by hunger and disease. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin after a look at the city: "You see the marks of the struggle in the taut, unsmiling faces on the streets. You see it in the meagerly equipped hospitals where acute tuberculosis has doubled. Rickets, twilight blindness, beriberi and other vitamin-deficiency diseases have become common...
That night, in the mining town of Djerada to the south, another quarrel between an Arab and a Jewish candy vendor grew into an even bloodier riot. Arabs chased a Jew down a blind alley and hacked him to pieces. Others were clubbed or kicked to death. Then Arabs set fire to the Jewish quarters. Forty Jews, including ten children, were killed; more than 60 were wounded...
Anxious Greeting. Back in Oudjda the local Pasha, 4O-year-old Si Mohamed el Hadjoui, publicly rebuked the Arab extremists for their "irresponsible acts." Later, as the Pasha entered a mosque for evening prayers, a fanatic Moslem stabbed him three times. Arabs joined Jews in stoning his assassin to death. Meanwhile the spark of racial hatred flared in Tripoli, where Arabs killed twelve Jews in another riot...