Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean government allotted land to a group of refugees who had slipped over the border from Communist North Korea. French's money bought a farm tool set for each family-sickles, hoes, shovels, picks, pitchforks. Then came fertilizer and seed, and a pair of bullocks. French got regular reports from CARE: when the first crops were harvested, when the first houses were completed, what special problems came up. Korea's winter is too harsh for farming, so French bought a machine to make straw rope for the village to use and barter. New Chorwon called it The Graham...
Guerrilla Days. Everything was far different from when he had last seen Athens. A staff officer of the 2nd (Athens) Division when the Germans and Italians overran Greece in 1941, he had organized, after the fall of Greece, a right-wing group known simply as "X." Alongside the British, it fought first the Nazis, then the Communists in the Greek civil war of 1947-49. He had run for Parliament as an extreme right-wing candidate and lost. Then he began to think of doing something about the British rule on Cyprus, the island where he was born. For months...
...until the very end of the turgid sessions did Comrade Gomulka uncork his surprise: he had edged 14 of his most bitter enemies off the important 75-member Central Committee. These were the hardcore, Moscow-First group who had tried to keep Gomulka out of office in the first place, and determinedly opposed the bloodless revolution that brought Poles a measure of freedom in 1956. Gomulka also beefed up the party's nine-man Politburo by adding two of his friends to its ranks...
...years ago a small island in the Gulf of Mexico played host to an imposing expedition. Flashing official archaeological permits, a group of 40-odd men arrived to excavate the site of an ancient Maya civilization that flourished in the 7th century A.D. For 45 days the party unearthed thousands of finely wrought, delicately painted Maya ceremonial statues, carted them out to boats. Said one of the diggers on leaving: a find worth millions. Only later did reports come out that the island's caretaker had been duped: the permits were called forgeries and the "archaeologists" art smugglers...
Last year Mao's inspired athletes claimed seven world records in sports ranging from swimming to weight lifting. One rowing group became so incensed by "U.S. imperialist aggression against our territory of Taiwan" that it bettered the winning time of the U.S. pair-oared shell with cox in the 1956 Olympics, even though the Red rowers had trained only a month over the 2,000-meter distance...