Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always kept them around. The Undershafts lived by making weapons of war for anyone who could pay the bill; sometimes they also made wars. Through the twilight of fact and legend that surrounded them and their international arms deals, they were known to Sunday supplement readers as merchants of death. The least known, and perhaps the last, of their brotherhood was a man who looked like a tall, friendly duck. He was François de Wendel...
...near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...Rain. During World War II, as in the first war, the De Wendel holdings were barely damaged. At war's end, François was accused, but eventually cleared, of collaboration with the Germans. He retired to his family seat at Hayange, in Lorraine. There, last week, death-whose conquests he had so ably aided in his lifetime-came to Armorer François de Wendel...
...Communist battle for control of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary raged last week throughout the country. In schools and homes, factories and offices, Hungarians were asked to sign petitions demanding the death penalty for Josef Cardinal Mindszenty because he had "insulted and damaged" the people's republic (TIME...
...death, which shocked the University and the literary world with its suddenness, ended an association with Harvard that began in 1927 when he came here as a graduate student. In 1946 he was appointed to the Boylston Professorship, one of the youngest men ever to hold that post...