Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quirino was not dismayed; "I may be going back emptyhanded, but I'm not going back empty-hearted." Besides, all the headlines back home on his U.S. welcome might help him through his tough fight for re-election next November...
...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
...Back home in Waukegan, Sentoria Montgomery did more than hope. She worked part-time as a cook, spent about $7,000 of her own and her brother's money trying to get her husband out of prison. For 24 years she found only frustration; but two years ago she found Luis Kutner, a flashy, wealthy Chicago lawyer...
Rambunctious Rebellion. The Assembly last week showed that it had determination. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak had relinquished public office at home just in time to be elected first president of the Assembly. His first act was to call for a short, practicable agenda. The Assembly rambunctiously rebelled against the Committee of Ministers, which has power to tell the Assembly what it can and cannot talk about. Cried Winston Churchill: "Why all this interference with the freedom of discussion...
Long before the sun was up one morning this week, three carloads of Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...