Word: one
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial started two defendants short. Russian Orthodox Priest Vladislav Nekliudov, chief among the accused, had hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell. One Alexander Krasilnikov, a former colonel in the Czarist army, was said by the court to be too ill to stand trial. Soviet, Hungarian and Bulgarian newspapers promptly cried that Tito had deliberately eliminated the two defendants, that the trial was fixed. To refute these charges, the Yugoslavs invited reporters to the bedside of ailing defendant Krasilnikov, who showed no evidence that Tito's police had maltreated him. Said he contentedly: "I was never...
...Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only the wish of the Soviet people and not an accomplishment, he conceded. But, he added, "since wishes and reality lie close together in the Soviet Union, one can expect the execution of the project in a short while...
...nightfall of Oct. 21, 1805, the battle off Trafalgar was all but over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory...
...aging Implacable was placed in honorable retirement as a training ship. One by one, as young future admirals learned to walk her sturdy oak planks and climb her graceful rigging, her old comrades in arms faded away. By the end of World War II, during which she served in Portsmouth as an admiralty storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only...
...have happened only in Britain's House of Commons. "In these days," said Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from the government front bench, "75 is not a venerable age. People seem to be able to continue for several decades after that-yet 75 does mark a distinct stage in one's life. I am sure that we all rejoice to see the right honorable gentleman in full health and activity, and wish him many more years...