Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All through the night and on into the morning the Times waited for what it hoped would be an eyewitness report from Times Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came...
Then the inevitable happened. Said Eyewitness Kenneth Treherne, a British businessman: "There was shooting, and for a second everyone froze in his tracks. Then everyone tried to run in the same direction−away from the firing. I'm afraid many of them got trampled. I heard screams of...
At 37, he has published more than 80 books under 20 names, including a sober study entitled When France Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with...
How many were killed no traveler could say; newspaper mention of the rioting was censored clear down to the burial notices. The minimum eyewitness count of the dead was two and the highest estimate was 20. Other estimates: wounded, 70 to 100, jailed, 300 to 3,000.
It was a bleary, boozy morning-after in a Harlem after-hours club. "They were arguing about chicks," reported one jive-talking eyewitness. "One thing led to another and this cat whipped out the difference [i.e., a gat] and started firing away. Everybody ducked for cover and I got so...