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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international understanding...
Even condemned murderers in death cells may soon feel the motherly touch of Britain's welfare state. Harley Cronin, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, recently wrote as follows to the Prison Commission: "After a long spell of waiting, both the prisoner and the staff get thoroughly tired of playing cards, chess, etc., and the provision of wireless would be a boon . . . With careful selection suitable programs could be tuned into." At week's end the Home Office, which supervises British prisons, still had the request under consideration...
Giuliano's mother, Maria, is a quarrelsome old woman who has long been in jail for helping him. "Giuliano," said a Palermo street vendor, "is trying to survive only so that he will not give his mother pain and perhaps cause her death by news of his death...
...streets and crowded quays, staring with awe at the U.S. men and warships. To pro-Franco folk the visit looked like a friendly gesture towards their leader. To anti-Franco folk the U.S. flag and sailors were a demonstration of a way of life for which they long...
Although she was but 45 years old, Nukashook had about reached the end of her days. In the tiny village of Eelounaling on Boothia Peninsula, one of Canada's northernmost Eskimo settlements, children regarded her as a cross and ugly old hag. The "spitting sickness" (tuberculosis) had long plagued her and her teeth were gone. One day last summer, while she lay coughing in her tepee, Nukashook called to Eeriykoot, her 21-year-old son. "I am suffering too much," she said. "Put up the rope so I may kill myself...