Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a Congregational church (see cuts) now contains stained glass, a rood beam, candles on the altar, other High Church trimmings that would have sent Cotton Mather on a witch hunt...
...widely read columnist ("William Hickey" of the London Daily Express), was a breezy leftist, so unconventional that in 1939 he called Adolf Hitler at his Berlin telephone number (only to be told that he could not speak to the Führer). But when the Government candidate, Conservative Reuben Hunt, attributed Britain's Libyan reverses to "our too-heavy shipments of arms to Russia," Independent Driberg accused him of a "wretched alibi for the incompetence of brass hats," and Maldon agreed with Driberg...
...specific in its exclusively anti-Axis purposes: to scotch "systematic espionage, sabotage, and subversive propaganda .. . inspired by or under the direction of member States of the Tripartite Pact." Nevertheless, the Argentine Government, whose actions against the Nazis have been empty gestures but which has been carrying out a witch hunt against Communists and labor, wrote into one of last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery" of a 9,000-member "Communist" organization in the Chaco, where any labor-organizing...
...greatest man hunt in modern history, Nazi police moved from house to house, sniffing out new victims for the Heydrich funeral pyre. Often they chose those merely suspected of approving of the attack on Heydrich. But they did not find the two patriots, possibly Czech parachutists dropped from British planes, who had struck down the No. 2 Gestapoman. Dr. Emil Hácha, puppet President of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, offered a 10,000,000-crown reward ($340,000 at pre-war exchange values) for the executioners of the Executioner. It was not good enough...