Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall at the rear of the chamber stood a large man in his late 40s. He had curly grey hair, swarthy skin and silver-capped front teeth. His name was Dimitrio Tsafendas, and he wore the uniform of a parliamentary messenger, a job for which he had been hired only a month before. Tsafendas was obviously distraught. At lunch with his fellow messengers, he had hardly touched his curry, left early without explanation. Now, as the warning bell summoned the Members of Parliament to their seats for the opening of the session, he refused to run a routine errand requested...
...that the anti-Communism that began with the failure of last October's Red coup will end in a Chinese bloodbath. Chinese merchants' shops are regularly looted, many Chinese schools have been closed, and last week the government banned all Chinese-language newspapers. Although few of the late Partai Komunis Indonesia's members were Chinese, many Indonesians harbor resentment against the overseas Chinese who dominate the nation's commerce. Peking itself has protested against anti-Chinese demonstrations in North Sumatra, where "right-wing hooligans armed with iron bars, hatchets and other lethal weapons rabidly attacked shops...
...that since they were both teachers, they had spent most of the day of her death at home grading papers, then they had left to cycle to Impala hill. Kinsey had intended to take his camera equipment along to photograph birds and wild life, but, as it was so late in the afternoon, he left it behind. The iron bar in the picnic basket, he said, was simply a part of his camera tripod accessory that he had overlooked...
...been handled by a sharp and knowing criminal lawyer. Georgiadis even produced a surprise witness: Mrs. Charlotte Dennett of Riverside, Conn., the mother of the dead girl. "It's good to see you, Bill," she said, as she embraced the defendant. Mrs. Dennett, ex-wife of the late Raymond Dennett, a former director of the World Peace Foundation, took the stand to give evidence in a quiet voice. While she fought back tears, she identified a letter that her daughter had written on the morning of the day of her death. Peverley had spoken of the planned picnic, chatted...
Forty-seven is a little late in life for a man to change his whole philosophy. But give Ralph Houk credit for trying. "Winning is all that counts," he used to say. Houk was a winner then. Now that he's a loser, he's learning to act like one. Alibis: "Injuries have practically killed us." Complaints: "The umpire really blew that one." Pleas for sympathy: "We're going through a period of unexpected events." Promises, promises, promises: "We have some outstanding prospects...