Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They can manage it in several ways," said Harry M. Hayward, Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center. "His expulsion from the Society of Russian Writers is sufficient excuse to deny him a passport to Stockholm and thus simply to detain him. Or they could issue the passport and still hold him by refusing to transmit his application for the Swedish visa...
Moral Atrophy. Seven months ago Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's Red government, which wants to silence all "destructive" criticism but hesitates to act too precipitately, gave Marek Hlasko a passport to visit Western Europe. In Paris he was interviewed by the weekly L'Express. Was he a Communist? "There is no such thing as a Communist." What were the differences between France and Poland? "I think that people here are able, at least to some extent, to get an element of joy out of life." What was it like to live under Communism? "The misfortune...
...with the sponsor. In effect, he said, federation was just an idea he had tossed on the table to see if it would get up and dance. He did not intend an immediate political union; all he wanted was close military cooperation and the removal of custom barriers and passport restrictions...
...Hormel what had happened. Hormel denied ever making the flight. He was in Alabama at the time, he said; someone must have stolen the plane while his back was turned. It may be tough to prove. In Havana last week, the word was that Flyer Hormel had left his passport in the splashed plane-and that the U.S. Navy found the document when it towed the plane ashore...
...crisp confidence of a drill instructor, he led his band on a raid of Koepenick's town hall, arrested the bumbling mayor and treasurer, walked off with the contents of the town till. Later, after Voigt gave himself up in return for a promise of getting his passport, the Kaiser was told about the escapade. Chuckling appreciatively, the Kaiser, according to the film, commented: "See, that's discipline. You won't find that anywhere else on earth...