Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled into Washington. With canes and Battery D armbands, they went peacefully off to Monsignor Tiernan's Mass at St. Matthew's Church, said in memory of 70-odd comrades who had died in France or since. Said one veteran: "In the old days we used to land somewhere, get in a fight first and then we'd go to Mass. We're getting...
Cash: $2.50. After 3½ years in federal prison for mail fraud, Ponzi tried to launch a "200% profit" Florida land swindle. Then Massachusetts clapped him into jail again for his original thefts. When he got out the second time, in 1934, Ponzi was deported to Italy, which he had left with "$2.50 in cash and $1,000,000 in hopes...
...Hangchow airport, about an hour and a half later, Formosa's Governor Chen Cheng and Chen Yi, governor of Chiang's native Chekiang Province, were among a small group of officials who watched the Gimo's plane land. Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant. Said one of the guests: "The Generalissimo seemed calm and relaxed-like one who has solved a great problem and is content...
Many of Mikofalva's peasants were bewildered. Janos Kelemen, the local president of the Communist-run Peasant Party, to whom Hungary's postwar land reform had given two holds (2.84 acres) in addition to the three he had owned before, said humbly: "I am a stupid peasant. How should I know whether Mindszenty is guilty or not? They tell me in one paper one way, and then comes my friend and tells me these are just lies...
What worries Kelemen more than Mindszenty's guilt is the fear that the Communists will take his land and make it part of a kolkhoz (collective farm). He is not sure what a kolkhoz is, but, he said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take...