Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shooting." A Guard patrol surrounded the house, took the surrender. Three days later Medina's holdout leader, Pedro Joaquln Chamorro, editor-owner of Managua's anti-Somoza La Prensa, also gave himself up. That left 38 rebels still at large, scattered through the hills near the Olama River 65 miles northeast of Managua...
...report, that many of Britain's laws go back to the Middle Ages when it was far more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite of gradual reforms, it is still worse...
...founded in tropical swamps 140 years ago. Sir William, the last British Governor, had his own particular ties to Singapore. As a corporal captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, Sir William was one of the hard-worked British prisoners who built the famed bridge over the River Kwai...
...Paris' Palais de Chaillot. Limiting his decorations solely to the Legion of Honor, Old Soldier de Gaulle smiled properly and offered affable greetings to Movie Luminaries Yul (The Sound and the Fury) Brynner, Sophia (The Black Orchid) Loren, Maurice (Count Your Blessings) Chevalier, William (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Holden, Cary (An Affair to Remember) Grant...
...treatise. The Concept in Leibnitz. Simone confided to her diary, "He's a marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River in a beery baritone. Here, felt Simone, was "the dream companion I had longed for since I was 15: he was the double in whom I found all my burning aspirations raised to the pitch of incandescence...