Word: manly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These accusations are all true," said the man called Durieux. "The Red Hand is proud to claim them. But we do not exult in murder. Our big regret is that innocent people have sometimes been victims of our counteractivity. But terrorism begets terrorism. The moment the Algerian rebels lay down their arms in complete surrender, the Red Hand will no longer need to exist...
Born Theodore Lieweraenowski in New York City, Lewin was a man who had had several brushes with the law but no convictions when he set out in 1939 to promote wrestling matches and open a cabaret in Manila. When the Japanese attacked the Philippines, Lewin, no man to duck a fight, enlisted and was captured on Bataan. At the Cabanatuan prison camp he proved his organizing ability by setting up a food delivery from outside that kept the P.W.s from starvation and the Japanese guards in pin money...
...man was determined not to let Lewin get away with his activities. The chief of the National Bureau of Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing in currency, 2) running illegal gambling, 3) harboring a Chinese wanted for murder, 4) "corrupting public officials and frustrating the present administration's efforts to eliminate graft and corruption in government." On the strength of these charges, Lukban got a warrant issued for Lewin's arrest...
...before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised to "put the darkness behind us" in Kenya (TIME, Nov. 23), and last week Peter Harold Richard Poole, 28, became the first white man in the colony's history to be sentenced to death for the murder of a black man...
...Ghana would get a chance to decide two questions: 1) whether their country should be a "full-fledged republic" no longer recognizing Elizabeth II as Queen of Ghana, 2) whether they approve of Nkrumah as first President for seven years. To the Evening News, there was only one man fit for the job. The man who: Osagyefo (Great Man), Katamanto (Man Whose Word Is Irrevocable), Oyeadieyie (Man of Deeds), Kukuduruni (Man of Courage), Nufenu (Strongest of All). Osuodumgya (Fire Extinguisher), Kasapreko (Man Whose Word Is Final), Kwame Nkrumah, Liberator and Founder of Ghana...