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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't doing what he said he was doing. Never mind, I just knew. I turned him in to the government man, and the FBI came around and found he had a short wave radio and was sending to the Nazis. That's all." A friend urged: "Go on, Gus, tell the whole story." Gus was firm: "We shouldn't say bad things about people unless we have...
Brigadier General Song Ho's loyal troops quickly drove the rebels out of Sunchon, and chased them back into the rough, hilly country to the south. It was hard to tell friend from foe. Both loyal and rebel troops wore U.S. uniforms and carried U.S. weapons. Loyal troops finally put on white armbands. Said young Lieut. Colonel Kang Yung Noon: "What sadness that we had to fire our first bullets against our own brothers...
...bombing raid that wrecked and burned their town, Carla and Giulia, cousins in their mid-teens, lost their grandmother in whose house they had lived. Alone and hungry, they turned for help to Carla's boy friend, Tullio, leader of a gang which preyed on the ruins of the town and prepared arms for a future Communist uprising. Tullio installed them in an abandoned brothel, where the three set up house, living off the money Tullio stole and Carla made as a prostitute...
Excuse the Hanging. When his half brother, Lawrence Washington, died in 1752, George lost the friend who had influenced him most. By Lawrence's will he eventually got Mt. Vernon; the Virginia Council and Governor Dinwiddie also gave him a job as adjutant and the rank of major which Lawrence had held in the militia. Two years later, the serious, acquisitive money seeker became the watchdog of a 350-mile frontier harried by French and Indians...
...short acquaintance and after two calls, he had proposed to Widow Martha Custis, yet, engaged to her, he could still write to his best friend's wife: "You have drawn me, dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...