Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainly from a practical point of view -as a peasant trader who was out of his league and should have known it. Yet the verdict on Laval must ultimately be moral. Again and again, to preserve its identity as a government of France, Vichy had to order Frenchmen to imprison and deport other Frenchmen in order to keep the Germans from moving in and imposing even harsher demands. Does the hope of saving five men justify the death of one? Did France have a right to salvage what it could from the 1940 debacle at the expense of its allies...
...were a forlorn lot with a forlorn tale. They came from a sect of Protestant Pentecostal evangelists in the Siberian town of Chernogorsk, near the Mongolian border 2,100 miles to the east. Of late, local authorities there had taken away several children of the sect, and threatened to imprison the adult faithful. With the vague notion that a foreign embassy might help them, the Siberians went by train to Moscow. Now they wanted to travel to "Israel"-probably meaning the Israel of the Old Testament...
...chanted in solo and choral recitation. Shosta kovich pours rafter-shaking eruptions of drums and orchestra, recapturing his old, uninhibited enthusiasm for color and excitement, rekindling the fire of Evtushenko's poem. The second movement is based on "Humor," a poem that makes the point that tyrants cannot imprison laughter, and the music - perfectly in the spirit of things - becomes impish, light and gay. The third movement, on a poem about a lonely young girl, is softly lyrical. The fourth movement, on Evtushenko's "Fears" (about the panicky Stalinist days), begins with an eerie trombone solo and builds...
Triple Victory. Though jailed, Augstein seems remarkably content. He apparently does not envy those of his colleagues-including Managing Editor Claus Jacob,. and his brother, Lawyer Josef Augstein-who have been freed. He has. in fact, made little attempt to challenge the government's right to imprison him. After all, Augstein's arrest has already resulted in 1) a Cabinet crisis in Konrad Adenauer's government, 2) the resignation of Augstein's hated enemy. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, and 3) a surge in Der Spiegel's circulation from 525,000 to more than...
...class of '29): his father, Alger Hiss, 57, an honors graduate who won the coveted post of secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the recommendation of Mentor Felix Frankfurter, served as a high State Department official before his conviction (and three-year eight-month imprison ment) for perjury in denying that he had passed Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. He is now a salesman for stationery and printing interests...