Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunt in Czechoslovakia continued. After arresting former Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis on charges of espionage and conspiracy against the regime, the Communist police arrested his wife Ludmila. Hundreds of other people, accused of being accomplices of Clementis, were also reported in jail, including ten members of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, four Communist district secretaries and a former ambassador. Said Deputy Party Secretary Gustav Bares: "We are making new discoveries. The Central Committee is determined to exterminate to the last drop this ugly and stinking ulcer." On one day last week, the Communist Party paper Rude Prdvo...
...chancery at 2:56; 147--Frank Scolpine (Navy) decisioned Bud Adams, 8-1; 157--Don Swygert (Army) decisioned Joe Hubbard, 9-0; 167--Murray Winer (Syracuse) pinned Neil Hastie with a sidearm chancery at 4:44; 177--Russ Schelling (Franklin and Marshall) decisioned Charlie Keith, 7-1; unlimited--Jim Hunt (Navy) pinned Jerry Blitz with a reverse nelson...
...least, it was obvious to one Boston newspaper, which chose to head its front page. "DAHLIA MURDER HUNT SHIFTS TO HARVARD." This was good for discussion in the dining halls last night, but its effect on the University itself is not likely to be permanent...
...Navy's newest, stealthiest killer will slide down the ways this week at the Electric Boat Co. yard in Groton, Conn. It is the Ki, pocket-size (750 tons) submarine, designed and built with one mission: to hunt and destroy other submarines. Only a little more than half as big as the Navy's fleet-type sub, the K-i's job is to lie in ambush along enemy submarine lanes, spot its prey with sonar gear, then nail the enemy with homing torpedoes equipped with electronic ears. It is one answer to the threat of Russia...
...made acid bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on July 20, 1944 in Adolf Hitler's headquarters, "Wolfschanze," deep in an East Prussian pine forest. Four men were killed, but Hitler staggered out slightly burned and bruised, though his hearing was affected. Within a few hours, an implacable hunt for the conspirators was unleashed. Before it was over, thousands of Germany's anti-Nazis were exterminated...