Word: gory
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Moscow revealed it was even planning to reopen the ornate marble Stalin Museum in Gori, the dictator's birthplace in Georgia, where dust has been gathering on the mementos of his "personality cult" since the museum was closed...
...picked by Charles de Gaulle to break the S.A.O. is General Michel Fourquet, 47, a slight, dark-haired air force officer who was famed under the nom de guerre of Colonel Gori in World War II, when he led the Free French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed...
...archbishop's most symbolic encounter, before he moved on to Beiru and Istanbul, was with Roman Catholic Monsignor Alberto Gori, Roman Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. Referring to his forthcoming meeting with the Pope, Dr Fisher told Monsignor Gori: "There are moments when I realize why divisions are transcended even while they exist." Replied the monsignor hopefully: "The ice has been broken...