Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The first phase of the Communist offensive in Finland was over. The Reds' carefully timed barrage of successive strikes had so far failed to paralyze the country's economy or to intimidate Premier KarlAugust Fagerholm's tough Social Democratic government. But the fight was not over. For...
One day this summer, balding, 63-year-old Handa decided that his search was over. On the telephone poles in Maebashi's dusty streets appeared placards advertising Warau Kamisama, the Laughing God. Said Handa: "I was fascinated. I have always felt that man is most human when he has...
Affrico lies in the district of Emilia, Italy's Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves...
To CHESF's engineers, as to most Brazilians, Paulo Afonso's progress is a matter of national pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go...
Following up this lead, Beteta's agents traced some 80 sales totaling more than 9,000,000 silver pesos, with an estimated profit of more than $1,000,000. All the silver had been turned over to a notorious smuggler named Roberto Maese, who moved it across the border...