Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At 69, he is a stocky man of middle height with plentiful white hair and an air of semi-polite skepticism. But he can also blaze with indignation and laugh like a kid-all within a few minutes. In the presence of his gentle-voiced, humorous wife, he smiles like...
Chicago made ready to tattoo its citizens with their blood types-underneath the armpits because arms might be blown off-in case radiation sickness called for quick transfusions. St. Louis's volunteer planners first thought of using the sewers for refuge until the city pointed out that a rainstorm...
The Worker announced that Gil Green, chairman of the Illinois Communist Party,*would write three articles oh the dialectics of Wallace's defection, but Green got so steamed up that he wrote four. In recognizing the authority of a United Nations action decided in the absence of a Soviet...
Fifteen-year-old Luca, hero of the second story, runs into another kind of adolescent trouble. Gangling, oversensitive, growing ahead of his mental and physical strength, he is not strong enough to take the shocks life has to offer. The girl of his first grown-up affair almost seduces him...
Pope Urban IV, who was in Orvieto at the time taking refuge from a threatened invasion of Rome from Sicily, ordered the blood-sported corporal brought within the safety of Orvieto's walls. Inspired by the miracle (Orvietans declare), Urban IV instituted the feast of Corpus Christi. He then...