Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"They came to me," she told the senate later, "in waves like enemy airplanes in wartime. Once they were all from retired colonels. Before that, it was the engineers' week. There have been weeks for lawyers, doctors, sociologists and even a week of letters from youths who say they...
It was a noisy try, but it failed. Interior Minister Mario Scelba himself rose to present the government's hearty endorsement of the Merlin bill. For the first time in anybody's memory the Communists joined in enthusiastic applause for a Scelba speech. The united front against vice...
Hisses and catcalls from the Communist claque in the spectators' gallery drowned out the rest of Kostov's statement. When the din had subsided, Kostov's lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a...
Forty-eight hours later the government proudly announced to the world that Kostov had been hanged. It also made an extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho...
Black Fear. Last week, on the 111th anniversary of the Blood River battle, the thanksgiving day turned into a raucous demonstration of Boer chauvinism. Prime Minister Daniel Malan's nationalist government formally dedicated a new monument to the Voortrekkers, a massive, brooding granite tabernacle on the boulder-strewn veld...