Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this stubborn and sensitive man, who refused to die to please Stalin, who built a new life, threw it away to atone for his past, and found it again. May it inspire others who until now have feared the wolf-pack of the anti anti-Communists to come forward to testify to the truth...
...were many men who hungered for freedom, but had no way of making their wishes known. In one compound where anti-Communists had got the upper hand, the leaders announced they would hold a preliminary screening of their own. They called for repatriation volunteers; when two loyal Communists stepped forward, the pair was set upon and done to death...
...summon his unionists to a fiery protest meeting outside the Johannesburg City Hall. Twelve thousand turned up, bearing banners: "Solly helped us, now let us help him." According to the police, they also brought a car loaded with empty bottles. Soon after Sachs began to speak, police charged forward, armed with revolvers and truncheons. While screaming women battered them with sticks, bottles, and legs torn off tables and chairs, the police dragged Sachs inside the City Hall, barricaded the main door, and then hustled their captive through a side door into a waiting patrol wagon. No shots were fired...
...Episode. Savonarola was in the tradition of the great Medieval ascetics, an anachronistic protest against Renaissance humanism. Discussing the newly revived ancient classics, he wrote: "The only good thing which we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell." No Protestant, he remained to the last rigidly faithful to Roman Catholic doctrine...
...preface to the book of figures, entitled "Gifts to Harvard. January 1. 1952 to March 31, 1952." President Conant said, "The number of donors listed in the following pages is impressive, as is also the total amount of their contribution. These gifts will enable us to go forward with a renewed vigor in a variety of enterprises I take pleasure in expressing sincerest appreciation to all who have given so generously. In so doing. I speak not only personally but on behalf of the governing boards and the members of the faculties...