Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the price the U.S. had paid Joseph Stalin at Yalta was a promise that the U.S. would support Russia's bid for a "special position" in Manchuria: control of the South Manchurian Railroad, Dairen and Port Arthur. Told about this deal months later, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly accepted. Further, when the Russians marched into Manchuria, three days after the atom bomb on Hiroshima, they disarmed the Japanese, then handed the arms to the Chinese Communists. Chiang was not surprised. Even when both he and the Reds were arrayed against the Japanese, Chiang used to say: "The Japanese...
...announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...
Ready or not ... In Tallman, N.Y., Joseph Castellucci returned to his summer home shortly after the deer season opened, found: 1) a bullet-scarred chimney, 2) a well-riddled wall, 3) a bullet hole in the front window, 4) another in a bedroom mirror...
Diversion. In North Plainfield, N.J., Joseph Vitelli explained to doctors that he had shot himself in the stomach to take his mind off a toothache...
Gallagher, 20-year-old veteran from North Cambridge, was trapped Friday by Inspector Joseph P. Breen in a North Cambridge restaurant, and was taken to Central Square police station...