Word: ending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope that he would rouse the Ukrainian populace to fight the advancing Russians, Bandera set up headquarters in Berlin, while Ukrainian partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice...
...congressional Deputy accused Plaza of "exploiting a corpse" and "trying to capture votes, not souls." The bitter anti-Peronists who run the army called Plaza in for a talk. Undeterred, Plaza pleaded on TV for an end to Peron's exile in the Dominican Republic. "The church cannot want any of its sons to suffer," he said, "and it is to be supposed that an Argentine exiled from his country lives in suffering." At week's end part of the front of Plaza's house was blasted off by unknown bomb setters-a hint of the passions...
...captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing for the future as he for the past, proving most malleable as he is most...
...cruel days go by, the heroes come to see that the coward is the greater hero, the more deeply courageous man. What they have is physical courage, not to be despised. But what he has is the highest kind of courage, the courage of his spiritual convictions. In the end it is the coward's kind of courage that brings the chastened heroes safely to Cordura...
...quiz shows worth an estimated $20 million in sponsors' fees-$5,000,000 each for NBC's Tic Tac Dough and CBS's Name That Tune, Big Payoff, Top Dollar. The number of quiz-panel-contest shows that survived was still 13 at week's end. If they are dropped too, the total loss in sponsors' fees will bulge to a bank-breaking $80 million...