Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where close to a dozen Deputies have been enjoying parliamentary immunity, for years untouched by allegations of wartime crimes. Most conspicuous of these was hard-drinking, high-living Deputy Francesco Moranino, who was only 24 when he commanded the 12th Garibaldi Division of Red Partisans in Italy's northern hills and styled himself, in the local dialect, Gemisto-the Devil. The Communists hailed him as a patriotic hero; the country was in a mood to accept their estimate, and De Gasperi made him an under secretary in his 1947 Cabinet...
...late thirties and certainly after the war, that task was completed for the Northern Hemisphere. The question was posed as to where Harvard astronomy would lead...
...workers were on strike in the north of Spain. Clandestine strike propaganda cited the profits made by Spanish enterprises and at least one illegal poster exhorted: "Spanish Republicans, do not forget this day!" Thousands of additional guards were called out to reinforce the already formidable Franco police forces in northern Spain. In a country where strikes are forbidden, the absence of arbitration machinery makes it difficult for the dictatorship to settle the strikes in any way but to crush them...
...When Northern newsmen covering the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses swarmed into the city room of Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 60,144), Editor-in-Chief Grover Cleveland Hall Jr., 41, did his best to answer their questions. He also asked questions-and decided from the answers that the North's own racial sins were being covered by its press in a "conspiracy of silence." To prove his point, Hall launched a daily series on Northern discrimination. Said he: "Whatever we reveal will not solve any problem Alabama has. Our purpose is to point out to the self...
...series. Reporter Tom Johnson and other staffers telephoned Northern editors and public officials to ask about discrimination in their areas. They found plenty, and Hall let the stories sprawl over his editorial page under the standing rebuking headline...