Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish-Bulgarian agreement of 1925 provided that emigrants could take their movable possessions, sell their fixed property. But the emigrants who crossed into Turkey (a peak of 15,000 in August) brought only personal effects worth $2 each. Said a refugee carpenter: "When I applied for a passport I was asked if I had overdue taxes. When I showed all receipts I was informed that my grandfather Ahmet owed 4,000 leva on a house I'd sold. I told them this couldn't be so, and that my grandfather's name was not Ahmet but Osman...
...Helsinki's Malmi Airport, Mrs. Pontecorvo looked haggard and distraught. Her husband seemed quite normal. But his passport was not in order; he had no Finnish visa, so the authorities politely told him he must surrender it for correction. He could pick it up in three days at the Ministry of Interior's Bureau for Foreigners...
...State Department quickly announced that Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania and a private citizen, was acting strictly on his own. But if he wanted a passport, he might have...
...River town on a rail. But the real-life claims of another pretender to the same identity were still in dispute last week. When he first arrived in Paris on May 26, 1833, he was a balding watchmaker with a thick mustache and a fringe of chin whiskers. His passport identified him as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff of Weimar, but the passport, its bearer promptly explained in almost incomprehensible French, was merely a blind; Karl Naundorff was in reality Louis, son of the guillotined Louis XVI, and the rightful King of France...
...Happiest Days of Your Life (London Films) is a nimble farce with a sound underpinning of character and comment. Though a few cuts below such blue-ribbon British comedies as Tight Little Island and Passport to Pimlico, it offers the rare inducement of watching two of Britain's best comics-Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford-as they steal scenes from each other...