Word: endedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though he rattled off the sentences so rapidly that he sounded like a tobacco auctioneer, Presiding Judge Alfonso Giordano needed one hour and 40 minutes to reach the end of the list. When he finally finished, 338 members of the Mafia were sent to jail for crimes ranging from...
The insular world of these fathers ended with World War II. In 1943 Levi joined a band of partisans to fight Italy's Fascists and the Germans. He was captured and sent to Auschwitz, where his skills as a chemist kept him alive. He worked as a slave at a...
Most of what passed for life in the Lagers took place in what Levi calls the "gray zone," an area of collaboration with the persecutors that, adds the author, "contains within itself enough to confuse our need to judge." Some jobs brought a prisoner an added ration of soup, perhaps...
At the board, the acrimony between the two Ks could melt pawns. Their first championship contest, in Moscow in September 1984, with an exhausted Karpov leading 5-3, ended when officials of the World Chess Federation, the sport's ruling body, stopped play for "medical" reasons. Kasparov's loud complaints...
Within minutes the dancing ended. All the merrymakers were reported to their professors and had their paper deadlines moved up one week. The hosts were repeatedly chastised and finally forced to agree to become monks after graduation.