Word: neutralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Benny's fight with Richie Mitchell, the referee explained the then-new rule that after scoring a knockdown, a boxer must go to a neutral corner. Benny suddenly registered perplexity. "Let me get,this straight," he said. "As I understand it, every time I knock him down I'm to go to a neutral corner." Mitchell looked nervous. Benny knocked him out in the sixth round...
...husband after the occupation. The Norwegian Legation in Washington had refused to approve her return, but she went anyway, using her Norwegian passport, and traveling by way of Portugal, Spain and Berlin. She had never sung for the Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during the occupation had chosen to enjoy a comfortable...
Gloomily the delegates trooped down the green and yellow carpet of Dublin's Leinster House and into the dimly lit Dail Chamber. "Like mourners," cracked a newsman, "heavy with the wake's hangover, for the funeral of Kathleen ni Houlihan." Throughout the war stubborn, belligerently neutral Eire had feasted while the rest of the world fought. But last week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young...
...Athens interview with Cleveland Plain Dealer Correspondent John Leacacos, Tsaldaris offered a solution to Greece's civil war. He asked Joseph Stalin to tell all Communists that the Communist Party prefers victory by democratic means to victory by violent revolution. Then a neutral zone in northern Greece should be created where Greek guerrillas could surrender their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port...
...newspaper editor, his masthead motto had been: "Independent in all things, neutral in none." When he became acting governor in 1943 (the governor-elect died before taking office), Wisconsin politicians learned that he hadn't changed. The self-styled "tough old codger" tackled every sacred cow and pressure group, from the American Legion to organized labor. He cracked down on lobbyists, gamblers, and battled the highway lobby...