Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad to see your balanced comments on Wimbledon [TIME, July 4] ... There has never been a grander set of Americans than those who came over this year-good sportsmen, good players and good lookers, and all great favorites of the crowd. Ted Schroeder won our hearts in one short fortnight, and Louise Brough's courage and Gussie's panties kept the female flag flying high...
...witness had been called for just one purpose - to answer, on behalf of other Negroes, Party-Liner Paul Robeson's assertion that the 15 million U.S. Negroes would never fight in a war against Soviet Russia. But, as many a big-league pitcher could have told the committee, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, organized baseball's first Negro and the National League's leading batter, was never a guy to bunt a fat pitch with the bases loaded. Testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Jackie Robinson quickly dismissed Robeson's statement as "silly." But there...
...Justice. There, with an air of martyred misery in an unaccustomed role, Frank Murphy sat out the afternoon of his life. For a while he turned up regularly at Washington parties. Although gossip involved him in various romances, he never married...
...Lubianka. When Anders still refused to join the Red Army and to confess to crimes he had never committed, he was taken to Moscow's Lubianka prison. Here he was again submitted to the NKVD treatment-sometimes being wooed with cigarettes and tea, at other times being smashed in the face and kicked...
...NKVD, he discovered, knew every detail of his personal and military history. They even showed him photographs of himself "at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam and at the international horseshow in Nice"-snapshots which he had never known existed. "We have such a file for every military and political personage in the whole world," said the proud interrogator...