Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranked California junior, is established pretty well at number one singles, with Kal Pollen, Chris Clark, Larry Sobel and Mark Woodbury battling for the next four positions. Other contenders for singles spots are Jonathan Roosevelt, Jim Gordon, Roger Pauley and Jerry Black. The doubles teams, still undetermined, will no doubt be drawn from these nine...
...choice of a chancellor will be up to Adenauer's ruling Christian Democratic party if Adenauer is elected president, and there was little doubt of Adenauer's election. Adenauer will still be at the helm when crucial East-West meetings take place this spring and summer...
...some principle by which the names have been changed to protect the guilty, Leon Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, in this novel is called Victor Rostov. But there is no doubt that the book is about the chess-playing, intellectual Commissar of War (1918-25) who lost his long struggle for power with Stalin. Trotsky became the grand heretic of a religion whose god is the state; it was his peculiar hell that he never ceased to believe in the religion that had made him its principal devil...
Author Wolfe claims that his story, which turns on two attempts on Trotsky's life, follows the facts. The account of the assassination relies on General Sanchez Salazar, Mexican chief of secret police, whose Murder in Mexico established beyond much doubt that the man who murdered Trotsky was in fact a Stalinist agent. Wolfe's picture is drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south...
...another four-bagger, and the score remained tied until the seventh. Captain and catcher John Davis then poled a home run over the right field wall, and the Crimson got a third score the following inning. With Harvard ahead by two with one inning remaining, there seemed little doubt as to the outcome...