Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged message from the gallows, until just before the start...
Coalmen everywhere were finding business harder & harder to hold on to. This was due to: 1) Lewis, whom coalmen call "the best oil salesman in the country"; 2) the greater efficiencies and cleanliness of oil and natural gas; 3) the rise in coal prices and drop in oil prices, which has put oil on a competitive footing with coal. On the East Coast alone switchovers from coal to oil have cut this year's coal sales at least 20% below...
...century, London has been the world's diamond capital. There the British-dominated diamond cartel has held the famed "sights" at which it sells its uncut stones. Last year Britain re-exported ?35 million ($98 million) worth of diamonds, more than half of them to the U.S. But due to currency controls, the diamond merchants had to resort to sharp practices to stay in business...
...rumor, and Hollywood had buzzed with it ever since. But last week, when Columnist Louella Parsons spread it as fact all over the front pages of the Hearst papers, a nation of moviegoers gawked. Screamed Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner across eight columns: INGRID BERGMAN BABY DUE IN 3 MONTHS IN ROME...
...Eagles jumped on the Crimson scored defense the first time that due took the ice, scored three goals in less than three minutes, and that was the game. The score at the end of the first period was 3 to 1, and at the end of the second...