Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIKE its wealthy Italian sisters across the mountains, the city of Nice in the 15th and 16th centuries was a place where great fortunes were piled up in the midst of misery. Moneylenders flourished, and when the long-suffering poor finally rose against their masters in 1437, they were brutally...
Cynically fostering an army purge are many of South Korea's 3,700 youthful lieutenant colonels and colonels, who make $63 monthly or less, and would like to see some vacancies at the top-where, as some of them candidly admit, the opportunities for graft are better. Posturing heroically...
Hoffa's head-hunting-along with its failure-was dramatically demonstrated in another way last week. Uncovered by the New York Herald Tribune's Reporter Earl Mazo was a Hoffa political purge list, containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months...
Again, the results were hardly what Jimmy Hoffa could have hoped for. Campaigning hard in Wisconsin, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Hubert Humphrey unhappily and often observed that he had every bit as much right to rate Hoffa's enmity as Jack Kennedy. And many an unlisted Senator and Representative felt...
Nasser's ambitions are becoming clearer. Surrounding Israel on two sides, he would like to close the circle by creating a sort of provisional Palestine regime in the area now part of Jordan. The Palestine refugee movement, if noisy, has been ineffectual since the Arabs were beaten by Israel...