Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Tito's minions in 1946 tried and convicted Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac on trumped-up treason charges, Stepinac did not confess. Apparently the Kremlin never gave Tito the secret of the "monstrous method." Last week there were rumors that Tito might release Stepinac from prison...
There were 372 of them in all, on a vessel built to carry 50. They were children and grownups, Poles, Estonians, White Russians and Latvians. Fleeing the terrors of totalitarianism in their homelands, they had found temporary asylum in Sweden but they had never felt safe. "There is many a Russian spy there in Sweden," explained 28-year-old Grace Kupper. who had escaped her native Estonia in a fishing boat five years ago. Soon afterward her parents were taken to Siberia. Now Grace...
Nehru has a lot to learn about America, too. "Most of my impression of America," he says, "has come from reading." A culling of his voluminous written words indicates that he has simply never given the subject much thought. As a British university man, he has perhaps looked down snobbishly at American deficiency in culture. As a sentimental socialist, he has ticked off the U.S. as unrivaled in technology but predatory in its capitalism...
...white-haired August Ferdinand Schmiedigen, 66-year-old boss architect of Haiti's International Exposition, dangled a stone on the end of a long string. Then, having shown his sweating black masons that their wall was not plumb, he hopped down to take a rest. "I've never worked so hard in my life," he gasped...
Tennessee's Boss Crump, whose domain shrank last election from the whole state to just the city of Memphis (and surrounding Shelby County), decided that there would be no harm now in admitting his age: 75. Never bothered to set folks right before, he told reporters, "because you've misrepresented me for 20 years, and had me younger, not older." Not that age makes any difference, he added: "You should never quit playing because you are old-you grow old because you quit playing. I enjoy life. I love life. I love people." Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren...