Word: opener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Dust. But there were difficulties. The legal right of the U.S. to move troops into Formosa was open to serious challenge. By the treaty of 1895, which followed the Sino-Japanese War, Formosa went to Japan...
...ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
...seemed an open & shut case. A 205-Ib. barkeeper named Jim Comber, half seas over from a night of drinking, had brawled with a drunken companion on a Philadelphia street. The friend staggered and fell; witnesses hurrying to work at dawn saw Jim Comber kick him repeatedly in the head after he was down. Minutes later the man was dead. The prosecution asked for a second-degree murder conviction. Judge Joseph Sloane, summing up, told the jurors: "I do not see how you can find the defendant not guilty...
...back broken, the old warrior settled slowly into the trough, sea water surging through her open ports. But she would not sink. A tug was ordered in to ram. Still the Implacable stayed afloat. For three hours the old ship lay awash, her gunwales flush with the waves, her flags still flying. Then, as darkness fell, her old timbers parted and she went under. Victory's victory was at last complete...
Father Leanard Feeney of St. Benedict's Center yesterday agreed to discuss the question of eternal salvation in accordance with the open letter addressed to him in yesterday's CRIMSON by Richard W. Wallach '49 IL. Father Feeney stated that he would discuss the matter at any time and at any place that was convenient...