Word: owning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime.
The Yugoslavs also released the suicide notes of Father Nekliudov to show that he had really died by his own hand. To his wife (if the notes were genuine) the priest had written: "My Veronika, forgive me. Goodbye . . . Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps...
Because there was free speech at the London conference, there were disputes. Hardly had the honeyed addresses of welcome ended when some delegates charged that Roman Catholic unions on the Continent, which have their own federation (International Federation of Christian Trade Unions), were being excluded from the new organization. Reuther...
By 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...
Last October, at his own pleading, Moncaster was released from prison, on condition that he assume a German name and go to work on a slave-labor project at Leuna, along with a group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to...