Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the Nazis heard their fates without show of emotion, clicked their heels and walked out of the courtroom. A repentant exception was Jewish Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a naturalized U.S. citizen and a notorious Buchenwald "trusty." He pleaded: "You have placed the mark of Cain on my forehead. Any physician who committed the crimes I am charged with deserves to be killed-must be killed. Apply to me the highest therapy that is in your hands." The judges prescribed life imprisonment...
With 1,521 students now in the school, and with a mere 78 departing at the end of the current term, they will be seven short of the 2000 mark this year without considering those returning from leave of absence and special graduate students...
...Mark. In Milwaukee, Valenty Pietrowski got a 60-day sentence after admitting finding a $40 check on the street, cashing it at a bar with an endorsement of three carefully drawn...
...they did not mark an airport. One of them was the pilot flame in a squat, chimney-like waste-gas furnace, set in a field of oil and gas storage tanks owned by the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. As the plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks...
Gromyko's day usually begins at 9 a.m. and ends after midnight. At breakfast he likes to read various morning newspapers. Among his literary favorites he includes, in addition to Russian classics, Hugo. Balzac, Goethe, Shakespeare, Mark Twain. His favorite U.S. movies include Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. His father was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister living in Gomel. He met his wife in college, in Minsk...