Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done a bit of spying for Moscow, and during the war had sentenced 24 Yugoslav partisans to death while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia's pro-fascist Ustashi courts. The Russian Orthodox priest, Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only woman defendant, Ksenia Komad, got the lightest sentence-three years. The prosecution claimed that she had been Kryshkov's mistress, charged her with...
...knew better than Gonzalez how painful economic reforms could be. Four months ago students, protesting over an increase in bus fares, set off a bloody riot in Santiago. But his whirlwind stump tour had won Gonzalez enough political support to put over the plan. Now his problem would be to hold down prices firmly enough for the plan to work...
...great orchestra is stability." Over 68 years, only nine men had shaped and polished the Boston Symphony until it was-except for Arturo Toscanini's virtuoso radio orchestra, the NBC Symphony, which is in a class by itself-the U.S.'s finest and one of the top four in the world...
...four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other's conditions were unacceptable. Last week they finally came to terms in a hands-down victory for the National League...
Most club owners were pleased with the new order. Said Ted Collins, who bought out Dan Topping's Brooklyn-New York Yankees to merge with his own New York Bulldogs: "It can't be rougher than what I've been going through ... In four years I lost more than a million dollars." In a voice trembling with emotion, John Mara, president of the football Giants, cried: "The whole thing is wonderful...