Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To Bang-Jensen (pronounced bong-yensen), longtime counselor at the Danish legation in Washington before he joined the U.N. staff in 1949, the burning of the papers was a victory for honor and principle. Inside the envelopes were the names of 81 Hungarian refugees who, at hearings of a U.N...
* In tracing the history of the .25-cal. automatic, the police uncovered a bizarre twist of circumstance: the same pistol had been used as a suicide weapon in Washington back in 1934 by a Commerce Department official who had borrowed it from the owner. The owner got it back from...
His fiery appeal was not enough in the face of the evidence. The nine men and three women needed only an hour and 25 minutes of deliberation to judge Citizens Councilman Lauderdale, a building supply dealer, guilty of what the prosecution had called "a diabolical scheme." The jury's...
Scarcely a month had gone by since 17-year-old William Buie, fireman third class, was transferred from a harbor-bound oiler to a rolling, seagoing Navy destroyer, and ex-Farm Boy (Mulberry, Fla.) Buie was one seasick bluejacket. One night last week, when his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell...
To keep up his courage. Buie began singing the only song whose words he knew-Tennessee Waltz. After about the sixth chorus, his voice had splintered to a teeth-chattering accompaniment, and Buie began to lose hope. He dozed a while. Then, two hours after he went overboard, he saw...