Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was also the victory over Holy Cross in front of about 500 intensely partisan Crusader fans. In this game, the varsity overcame a 2 to 1 half-time deficit and played calmly throughout the last half...
...provided an enjoyable parody of the heroic style. It was difficult to tell at first whether the action was farcial by intent or accident ("Where did I get the nerve?" muses the soprano after telling off Xerxes), but as the melodramatic cliches become less widely spaced the audience turned partisan, hissing the villain with all its might. As is proper in a drama of love, war, and deception, there is a chorus strutting about occasionally, singing things like "Prepare to fight with skill and might," and a priestess (attractively played by Elizabeth Theiler) going through a mystic ritual-dance...
Morand said that De Gaulle (whose titles as President of France include that of Protector of the Academy) had asked him through intermediaries to postpone "a candidacy that, at present, still provokes too much partisan hatred." What really decided Morand, said Paris gossip, was the warning that De Gaulle would not receive him, if and when it came time for Morand to make the newly elected academician's traditional call on the President of the Republic...
...purge of Sänger rankled West German papers of widely varying political persuasions. "Scandalous," cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent...
...wartime weapons consultant to the Italian armed forces, De Henriquez was not content to observe just one side; he was constantly slipping across the lines to see how the other side operated. He was arrested 18 times, once sent before a Yugoslav partisan firing squad: "I kept laughing and telling them I was a professor, and finally they let me go." To De Henriquez, Italy's collapse was a dream come true: "Capitulations are wonderful for collectors. Generals are busy fleeing, and nobody bothers about maps and documents...