Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Elefterios Tsakales, a former shoemaker of Soufli: "I left Greece on Nov. 26, 1946, stayed a few days in Sofia and went on to a camp at Bulkes, Yugoslavia, where I remained until a month ago. One night we were called up and told that we would free Greece from the American fascists...
...Greek Government believed that Markos had fled into Albania. Wherever he was, the backbone of his.government of "Free Greece" was broken. Greek army sources reckoned that it would take a few weeks to complete mopping up in the Grammos area; they expected the roundup of other rebel groups scattered throughout the country to be completed by the end of the year...
...cultivated Peiping gentleman cherishes three things in his quiet walled courtyard: a peng (broad overhead matting) for shade, a goldfish pool for the cool grace of its inmates, and a pomegranate tree for its fruit. With these he can free his mind from such pressing disorders as the occasional boom of cannon outside the town and the runaway inflation inside...
...Cali, defiant squads roamed the streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
...scarred Great Hall of Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference so free from princely affectation." "A Fearless Witness." "Marxian Communism ," the conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means and not an end ; it encour ages class warfare...