Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated case, in which he acted for a woman who had lost one leg, Belli brought a grotesque, leg-shaped package into the courtroom. It was wrapped in butcher's paper, tied with twine. Throughout the trial, the jury stared in horrified fascination at the package. Finally, near the end of the trial, Showman Belli slowly and deliberately opened the package-and handed the contents to a startled juror. It was an artificial leg, of the sort the plaintiff would have to wear for the rest of her life. The jury returned an award...
Even Fleet Street reporters for Britain's brashest tabloids considered the Ellis articles to be "a bit near the bone...
...Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party cleared...
Some came out waving white flags of surrender. But in the Rif, warriors in brown and grey djellabahs, armed with old German Mausers and French muskets, swept down from the hills, cut the muddy coastal road leading to the city of Tetuán, surrounded a royal army barracks near the port of Alhucemas and seized an airport near...
Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...