Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jurors were angry and anxious to tell their story. Several walked over to shake Murphy's hand and congratulate him. His summation, said one juror, Mrs. Helen Sweatt, "was the real turning point of the case." The jury had been eight to four almost from the beginning. The leader of the holdouts for acquittal had been Foreman James-the man whom Murphy had singled out. But, said one juror, all twelve had agreed on two facts: that the documents were typed on the Hiss machine and that it was in the Hiss house during the critical months...
When Lenin died in 1924, so many Russians filed past his bier that a Soviet leader asked: "Could we not make a semi-permanent thing of it?" Professors Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobyev went to work, and after four months announced they had found a method that would preserve Lenin's body intact indefinitely...
Democratic Discontent. Last week, in a remarkably frank interview, Nozaka revealed these plans to TIME Correspondent Sam Welles. Said the Communist leader: "We now oppose violent revolution. We can do much with very democratic and peaceful methods . . . We can use the people's discontent...
Liberals the country over protested their leader's arrest. In Quito mounted troops broke up a demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!" The President, following his policy of ignoring or minimizing plots, immediately ordered the release of students arrested in the demonstration, and requested that the judge assigned to the conspiracy trial free the defendants if there was any legal...
Chief attraction was the leader, Giorgio Almirante, small-time journalist and propagandist formerly in Mussolini's service, who, after the Duce's fall, made a living as a messenger boy and traveling salesman. A ferret-like little man, he stood behind the microphone while the delegates cheered. Said he: "I stand at attention before the legion of sorrow." He continued: "They say we are sentimentalists, that we long for a past which died with one man. But we are like the apostles who gained their faith through the martyrdom of Christ...