Word: ils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...faction favored by Russia soon got into the saddle. Korea became a Kremlin show-until Kim Il Sung's army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...
Rachele Mussolini, 61, widow of the late Benito, finally got possession of her old dowry farm near Forlì, plus six other farms and two villas once owned by the dictator. One catch: the government slapped a $16,000 mortgage on the property owned by Il Duce, which represented, it said, wartime profits made during his regime...
...Star was not the first paper to find that Pogo's pals are as loyal and vociferous as L'il Abner's. After only 14 months of syndication, Pogo is appearing in 126 U.S. newspapers. A current poll by the Saturday Review of Literature shows Pogo is in seventh place among comic strips, ahead of Terry & the Pirates, just behind Steve Canyon...
...League team: g, Ben North of Brown; rfb, Alex Athanassiades of Yale; lfb, jackson Hall of Dartmouth; rhb, Art Pappas of Springfield; chb, Paul Deitsche of Yale; lhb, Don Spreen of Springfield; ol, Court Nelson of Trinity; il, Ash Eames of Amherst; Cf, Burnett; ir, Weiss; or, Goldstein...