Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II gave him the chance he was waiting for. Talking over Lend-Lease with a foreign-trade official, he "carefully, skillfully . . . guided the conversation" until the official asked whether he would like to go to the U.S. to inspect Soviet Lend-Lease supplies. Finally he received his passport...
...Portuguese retainer was trying to encourage a kitchen fire with damp wood when the little family arrived. The children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire...
When he presented his passport, General Grosz, Poland's director of press information, said: "Ah, yes, your paper is unfriendly to us." He produced a clipping and began reading aloud. But, protested Bigart, that was an editorial from the Washington Star. "Makes no difference," said Grosz, "I know you've said bad things about us." The Communist party blamed "excitable dispatches" of foreign correspondents for the strained relations between Poland and the U.S. "Meanwhile," wrote Bigart, "the Government-controlled press faithfully follows orders to 'furiously attack' American and British correspondents whose reports are objectionable...
Dressed in Western clothes, with his reddish beard shaved off, and equipped with a false passport, the Mufti apparently left France last fortnight on a T.W.A. plane for Egypt. In Cairo he disappeared. Next day a U.P. dispatch from Damascus said that the Mufti was in Syria, at a meeting of the Arab League called to resist the Anglo-U.S. plan for transferring 100,000 European Jews to Palestine. But the U.P. later admitted that the Mufti's whereabouts were uncertain, and the Syrian Government denied that he had entered by air or through any frontier post...
When one pine-marked trench was opened, Red Cross girls descended, pawed over 250 corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid...