Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine night express train, carrying about 500 British troops. The dead: five British soldiers, three civilians. Near Tel-Aviv a van loaded with explosive blew up near a police billet: four British were killed. In Haifa, terrorists assassinated A. E. Conquest, chief of the British Criminal Investigation Department in northern Palestine...
...years since the Communist Manifesto, had Marx's mush-mouthed dialectics, distilled from northern academic mists, come so far in a land where struggle had always been so real and urgent that it needed no theoretical encouragement? How did Communist influence manage to reach so deeply into the heart of the civilization it sought to destroy? Part of the answer lay in the results of 20 years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part...
Decline & Fall. Italy, in the belated spring of 1947, looked deceptively like a country in happy convalescence. From the Po down to Palermo, fields were green and fertile, and the people were hard at work. In the northern cities, many factories were going full blast and foreign visitors marveled (as they had before) at the patched-up trains, running on time. Fruits, vegetables and meat choked city markets...
...Ivory saints beckoned from panels small enough to put in a wallet. Rams and lions from ancient Antioch displayed their gold and silver manes in 5th Century mosaics. There was a polished statuette of Astarte, the pagan goddess of fertility, whose memory died hard among the Christian farmers of Northern Syria. Bronze oil lamps, surmounted by leaping lions and the hooked beaks of griffins, stood dry and wickless under glass. Once the lamps had flickered, fiercely golden, on the night-tables of dying bishops and children afraid of the dark...
Earlier this week the Varsity lost another pitcher to the Ivy League semi-pro rulings when Freshman-veteran right-hander Ralph Hymans was declared ineligible since he pitched several games in the Northern League before entering College...