Word: nordness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a month, Paris nights had been disturbed by mysterious bomb blasts, five of them directed against Communist bookstores and propaganda headquarters. Last week the bomb-throwers blasted the front door and grillwork of the Banque Commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord, used by Moscow for its financial transactions with France, and a known reservoir for Communist Party funds...
...past eight years, the citizens who live in Paris' Rue La Fayette-a busy, noisy street near the Gare du Nord -have had their blood pressure driven high by a series of poison-pen letters. The writer demanded money for keeping secrets most of the neighbors did not have. The charges, all phony, said such things as, "Your husband belonged to the Gestapo. If you don't bring me 50,000 francs I will denounce him to the police," or "I know who strangled your sweetheart. Send me 50,000 francs and I won't say anything...