Word: hun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Tom Watson was no ball of fire in his studies in school. He went to private schools in Short Hills, barely managed to scrape through Hun School in Princeton. After graduation from Brown University, he joined IBM. Starting at the bottom as a salesman in Manhattan's financial district, young Tom soon proved that he was his father's son. In an area where previous IBM salesmen had never made 100% of quota, he hit 231% and hung up a record. Says his father: "That was the only right way. He had to make his own records...
...Labor Party treasurer at the party conference in September. Key to election is the block votes of Britain's six biggest unions, usually pledged in advance. At first, Bevan seemed headed for success. Britain resounded with shrill voices echoing Bevan's "No guns for the Hun." The National Union of Railwaymen (323,000 members) announced their support. Many small unions chimed in. But Britain's biggest union (the Transport and General Workers) and its fourth biggest (the General and Municipal Workers) pledged themselves to Gaitskell. Last. week the miners, Nye's own union (and Britain...
Konrad Adenauer had already guided the hated land of the Hun and the Nazi back to moral respectability and had earned himself a seat in the highest councils of the Western powers. Though she still lacked a formal peace treaty, and the Iron Curtain fenced her off from half her land and from 18 million countrymen, Konrad Adenauer's West Germany last year emerged as the strongest country on the Continent save Soviet Russia...
...Munich, the indus trial head at Diissel-dorf, and the traditional head at Berlin." The bureau is also responsible for news from Austria and Yugoslavia. Just as Berlin serves as the listening post for Poland and East Germany, so Vienna is the siphoning spot for information from Czechoslovakia and Hun gary. Belgrade has its sights fixed on Bulgaria and Rumania...
...Long As I Breathe." Li Hun-jo, a layman, taken by Communist soldiers from his village with some 50 others, had the courage to answer yes when they asked if he was a Christian. He died hooked over the limb of a tree, his arms bound behind his back. Dutch Franciscan Father Leonides Bruns, 35, calmly removed his shoes and socks just before he was beaten to death. "I want to die just as my Lord was at His death," he told his torturers...