Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three and a half years ago, in the name of all humanity, the victors of World War II put the leaders of the vanquished on trial. In over 50 million words of testimony, the Niirnberg mill ground out the story of six million Jews murdered, millions of laborers held in near-slavery. So huge were the figures that the world could scarcely grasp them. Though Hermann Göring postured in the dock and Rudolf Hess bellowed his insane laughter, interest in the courtroom scene flagged. But last week, crowds once more flocked to the big red-roofed Palace...
Just before his retirement to his native village of Fenghua last January, President Chiang Kai-shek thoughtfully moved some $300 million of Nationalist gold, silver and foreign exchange from Nanking and Shanghai to safer vaults in Formosa and South China. There it was put under tight control of generals and officials loyal to Chiang. If the Communists toppled the peace-seeking government of Acting President Li Tsung-jen and tried to occupy all of China, the gold and silver would serve Chiang's still-faithful followers as a nest egg for further resistance against the Reds...
Next Year ... Israel's strongly secular government, many of whose officials neglect to keep the Sabbath, went all out for the "Feast of Liberation." In accordance with a Jewish law that all regular cooking utensils must be put away during Passover week, the Israeli army formally sold all its pots & pans to a Gentile, with the tacit agreement that it would buy them back at. week's end. In Jerusalem's New City, the authorities erected a triumphal arch. From atop Mount Zion, Jewish pilgrims peered down into the Arab-held Old City; the Arabs...
...would lull Austrians into forgetting life's serious problems. The Red Army's local paper warned its readers that "Harvey is not really a harmless bit of fluff . . . The great mission of this rabbit," it wrote, "is to overcome reality-the bad truth one always wants to put away...
...them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever tried to strike me." But even if patients should hit an attendant, Brand says, the attendant should not strike back, but "put them in a side room and tell them to lie down...