Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of the Czech newspaper Svobodne Slovo, now aptly retitled Nova Politika, does not mean "Free World" [TIME, March 8], but "Free Word." It is because the "Free Word" has ceased to exist in my country, not only as a newspaper but mainly as a means of expression, that I have resigned my position of Czechoslovak consul in New York City...
...there was no concealing what had happened. Even before MacArthur's entry into the race, Harold Stassen's free-speaking, free-spending campaign had won him thousands of new supporters. When MacArthur jumped in, his name became a new rallying point for many who had climbed reluctantly onto the Dewey band wagon for lack of anywhere else...
...Manhattan's Bowery Comeback Association, dedicated to turning bums into good citizens, tried its hand at helping vagrant women by offering them 1) a free beauty treatment, 2) a new wardrobe, 3) room rent for four weeks and 4) $60 in cash. There were no takers...
Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...