Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom!" The Communists retaliated by displaying large posters showing a gorilla-like German soldier above the caption: "If you want him back, vote no." Other posters showed Winston Churchill squeezing a rubber doll (Mikolajczyk) and making it cry "No!" The Red humorists found other weapons too. On the eve of the referendum, Mikolajczyk announced that 1,213 of his party officials had been arrested by the Government's "security" police, and that almost everywhere in Poland the Polish Peasant Party was deprived of the right to campaign. Mikolajczyk had a long bill of particulars. Samples...
Once upon a time (so the legend went), a beautiful girl of the proud Dyak tribe persistently scorned a young warrior; desperate as a procrastinating shopper on Christmas Eve, he finally hit on the idea of bringing her a human head. His beloved tenderly declared that this was indeed a gift worthy of a Dyak maiden's heart, and consented to be his bride. Ever since then, the men of Borneo have been passionate headhunters...
...EVE W.SIMS...
...Grand Junction, Colo., an ex-Army Air Forces officer named Ralph L. Atonides left a friend's wedding-eve bachelor dinner early. Once in the clear he picked up the bride-to-be, a Miss Francy Bigs Kurtz, flew her off to Las Vegas and married her himself...
...election eve, Czechoslovakia's slightly right-of-center National Socialist Party edified voters with a great protagonist of Western culture, Mickey Mouse; they screened Disney pictures in front of their party building. On the other side of Prague's Wenceslaus Square, the Communists showed newsreels of murder and torture in German concentration camps. Mickey lost...