Word: laconicism
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Women & children were shipped to Siberia's labor camps merely because their husbands and fathers had been sentenced. Like thousands of her fellow countrymen, one idiot girl was there because she had wandered beyond the limits of her home town without official permission. Most of the political prisoners were...
For laconic British Foreign Correspondent Crane, there were more important things to talk about than love on that autumn day in 1947. Civil war raged through India's Kashmir, and swept over the cream-colored British Catholic mission where he had arrived a few days before, looking for a...
Last week Letourneau was firm. If he was to continue to handle the Indo-Chinese affair he wanted power to 1) dispose the armed forces in Indo-China as needed to fight the war, and 2) dispense the budget voted for Indo-China without consulting Petsche. Finance Minister Petsche gave...
Henderson headed for battle with 700 Marines (half the entire Corps), he tacked a laconic sign on his office door: "Gone to Florida to fight the Indians. Will be back when the war is over." When Henderson retired after 38 years as commandant, he was so accustomed to living in...
That afternoon, the Yugoslavs began the trek back, the housewives waving their brooms, the girls their lipsticks. Yugoslav authorities feared that further excursions into the capitalist parts of Gorizia would breed discontent among Tito's subjects. At week's end, Italian newspapers carried a laconic communiqué: "Permits...