Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...
...into the grey brick Legislative Yuan building. None of the waiting rank & file knew what was impending. T.V. took a seat facing them, in the center of a long curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
...with the Muffler. When France collapsed in June 1940, Hardy became a supervisor in Paris' Gare Montparnasse. He regularly reported troop train movements to London, was jailed for 15 months by the Germans. Released, he made his way into Vichyfrance where he directed the underground's railroad sabotage. Then his path converged (briefly and tragically) with that of one of the Resistance's greatest heroes, a man called...
...unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings (at Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyons, on June 21, 1943) that...
Like most of the group, Gustave Singier is a married man, spends his days painting in an ice-cold studio wearing two sweaters, two coats, a muffler and hat. He seldom sees his fellow painters. Asked what the twelve call themselves, he explained that movements don't give themselves names: like Quakers, they get names pinned on them by their detractors. He-if no one else-liked, a name he had found in reading Delacroix's Journal: "Surnaturalists...