Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strike Him?" After an hour of fruitless questioning, the major asked Pirogov whether he had given any thought to his family back in Russia. "I object!" an American officer put in heatedly. "That's coercion." "What do you mean, coercion?" the MVD man replied in an injured tone. "Did I strike him?" After an hour's argument over what constituted coercion, the major was finally allowed to ask whatever he wanted. He drew a blank...
Snubnosed, 31-year-old Barsov proved equally obdurate. For hours the major employed every psychological trick in the book to wear him down. Over & over again he made Barsov write his name, insisting that it was not really the way he normally wrote his signature. Then, playing his trump card, the major pulled out a letter...
Before the major could speak, Barsov pointed at the letter and exclaimed: "I know the handwriting on that letter, and unlike you, I'm not going to quibble with you for an hour about whether it's real. That letter was written by my wife . . . I know anything that's in that letter you've forced her to write . . . I'm still not going back." After nine hours the major finally returned with his lone catch, the flight sergeant, who wanted to go back in the first place. The plane was also returned...
...third truce in Palestine was being vigorously violated by both sides. The Jews stood accused by the U.N. Truce Commission of reopening hostilities in the Negeb and at Gaza. The Egyptians were fighting desperately to escape from their pockets. On the northern front, in Galilee, which had seen no major fighting since July 18, the Lebanese and Syrians opened a belated offensive...
...Quartet in C Major (Gordon String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). Dvořák was still under the influence of Beethoven and Schubert when he wrote this string quartet. Performance: good. Recording (on Vinylite): good...