Word: lated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forming a new government, the spectacle is undignified, sometimes dangerous and a severe physical tax on the men involved at the core of it. For three days 54-year-old René Mayer, last week's unsuccessful premier-designate, did not eat a decent meal. From morning until late at night he conferred hectically with party leaders. At intervals he replenished his energies with crackers and chocolate bars from a desk drawer...
Satano's judges might well have sighed with him. Since the U.S. first began conducting war crimes trials in Japan late in 1945, 124 Japanese had been sentenced to hang, 62 to life imprisonment and some 650 to prison terms ranging from a few months to 50 years. More than 150 others were acquitted or dismissed. With the case of Osamu Satano, U.S. prosecutors closed their books. There would be no more war crimes trials in Japan...
...deluge came too late for Castro and thousands of others like him. When Castro got back to his hillside, he found his wife methodically collecting straw for adobe bricks. His house had dissolved, his cornpatch was gutted, his pig and ox had strayed or drowned. Last week, as the first adobe bricks for his new house were drying in the sun, he and his family hunched round an open fire eating fresh-water crabs from Lake Atitlán. But there were no tortillas. Corn could not be bought at any price...
Bruce Munro's varsity was a tired team after it was all over. The Crimson paid for the honor of being the first east coast soccer team ever to fly to game, for the plane was almost two hours late landing at Washington. The squad didn't get to bed until...
...faculty and students of St. Benedict's in a statement signed by the secretary of the School, said last night; "Many of us have at one time or another been associated with Jesuit institutions, and know that their policies of late are motivated more by political expediency than by Christian charity...