Word: marche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces until he was apparently warned off by his colleagues. They observed that the jurors were not warming up to the performance. After this Stryker stood back. There was only one witness in the whole world who said Hiss had transmitted State Department documents to Chambers in February and March of 1938, Stryker pointed out. That was Chambers. He quoted Prosecutor Tom Murphy's opening statement: "If you don't believe Chambers, then the Government has no case...
Last week, in the condemned row at Sing Sing, Squint Sheridan and Cockeye Dunn were ready to die. Danny Gentile had turned "canary" at the last minute, singing out his knowledge of New York's crime-ridden waterfront (TIME, March 7) to win life imprisonment instead of the chair. Cockeye Dunn's family wanted him to sing, too, but he refused. As for Sheridan, who had tried in court to take all the blame for the murder and had even testified that killing was "just like ordering a cup of coffee," there was never any thought of squealing...
...glumly while Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps read from eight pages of foolscap. Almost every one of the 20 minutes' worth was bad news. Britain's dollars were going down the drain too fast; $261,950,000 had been used up from the end of March to the end of June. Only $1,636,180,000 was left-well below the $2 billion reserve the British had considered the minimum for safety...
...Rule or Reign. Leopold's biggest mistake was his conviction about the outcome of World War II. In March 1940 he told a visitor: "I am as anti-Hitler as you are. But keep in mind that Germany will win the war." The King seemed right when the German army engulfed Belgium after 18 hopeless days of resistance. He refused to follow his government to exile in England. He surrendered his army. In both these actions he showed his stubborn will to rule rather than reign...
...last March, in the wilds of Alaska, a small private plane settled down on its landing skis and slid to a stop. A few minutes later, after strapping on some snowshoes, Pilot Terris Moore set out for the last nine miles of his journey on foot. He had come all the way from Boston to make his round of visits; before accepting the presidency of the University of Alaska, he had decided that he should call on each of the regents to talk things over...