Word: roundup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...being a rich source of profit, the shop consists of a few dozen empty button boxes, and only Jewish charity keeps it going. A deep affection grows up between the little carpenter and the woman-with which the movie begins to grow less funny. The climax comes with a roundup of Jews for the concentration camps. Should Tono risk hiding his friend or force her to join the frightened crowd in the square? The end is a moving, ironic illumination of the small-scale greed and failure of nerve that enabled the Nazis to triumph over so many free...
...only cows but goats too." "And trees and green grass?" he asked. "We have all that," said Fry. "I told him that New York City was only a part of the U.S. and even there was green grass. Chagall was enormously relieved." Fry rescued him from a police roundup of Jews in Marseille, packed him, his family, and 3,500 Ibs. of his art works on board a transatlantic ship. The day before he arrived in New York City, June 23, 1941, the Nazis attacked Russia. The U.S. provided a wartime haven and a climate of liberty for Chagall. Manhattan...
...product of the political market mechanism, the result of varying proportions of stupidity and astute planning plus a few unpredictable contingencies. Despite Goldwater's blunders and speech writers, despite all the primary results, the Arizonian ambled downhill to the nomination after Rockefeller's remarriage. It was Clifton White's roundup of 300 solidly Goldwater delegates (with 655 needed to nominate) plus the Goldwater victory (and 86 votes) in California that corralled the convention...
...various circumstantial stories of how the crime had been committed got into print. The Department of Justice took its time in building a case with FBI evidence, but at last decided to move. Agents had already secured at least one confession-and enough other evidence, apparently, to warrant a roundup. And so, early this month, the FBI arrested Rainey, Price and 19 other men on charges of complicity in the murders (TIME...
...Thais tithe their annual income in contributions to temple building and Buddhist ceremonies?good Buddhism but a serious drawback to the government's efforts at capital formation. Not long ago, Bangkok carried out a little-publicized roundup of leftist-oriented monks to prevent any Communist infiltration of the clergy. But by and large, in peaceful, prosperous Thailand, the golden mean rules. Bangkok is still rocking from the Sarit scandal?the tough, able late Prime Minister is charged with misappropriating vast government funds?and King Bhumibol has been urged to strip Sarit posthumously of his title of field marshal...