Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War II: called into Stalin's Hungarian propaganda section, edited Uj Hang (New Voice) in Moscow, and broad cast from Budapest-beamed Radio Kossuth (named after National Hero Louis Kossuth, who led Hungary's 1848 struggle for independence which a Russian army helped crush). Returned to Hungary in the baggage train of the onsweeping Red army in 1944, along with Gero, Rakosi and other Moscow-trained Communists, to take over liberated Hungary...
...latest outbursts of racial violence in the South have filled me with shame and disgust. This mob violence and mass hysteria has no justification and to poison the minds of children with hatred and bigotry is nothing less than atrocious! Instead of hanging effigies, these mobs should hang their heads in shame...
Eastbourne (pop. 58,000), where geraniums hang from lampposts, is Britain's most genteel seaside resort and a mecca for wealthy widows who await death in its pleasant Victorian surroundings. For years the teacups buzzed with talk of a local doctor with a large, loyal practice, who doted on his aged patients. He met them at the station after their visits to London, took them for drives in the country, rushed to the bedside at any hour with soothing words...
...jeep photographing the clash at Oliver Springs, five men, three of them carrying shotguns, advanced on him. Leaping to the ground to escape them, he broke his left leg. In the same melee, Nashville Tennessean Photographer Jack Corn had a shotgun shoved into his stomach and barely managed to hang onto his camera until guardsmen took him into protective custody. Two days later a 19-year-old prisoner-one of 15 mobsters arrested at Oliver Springs-sprang suddenly between two carbine-carrying guardsmen, knocked Corn down and slugged and kicked him. Two stitches were taken to close a gash...
...Stan would have been forgiven his rare errors. Just the week before, a lusty double had bought him the National League record for extra-base hits (1,072). long held by the Giants' Mel Ott. And he is so close to so many other marks that before they hang a plaque with his name on it in the Hall of Fame, The Man will surely stand no less than third in the league in all eight offensive departments: runs scored, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs, total bases and extra-base hits. For all his recent lapse...