Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subway motormen (of 3,167 total) decided to stop, walked off their jobs. Within minutes the city's 237-mile subway system was disrupted, its 4,700,000 riders were disoriented. Within two hours the city found itself locked in the biggest, messiest transportation scramble it had ever seen. Commuters flooded to the streets, turning the surface transportation system as well into a cramped, cough-provoking cloud of chrome, curses and exhaust...
Spanish newspapers printed disturbing reports of Moroccan savagery against Spanish civilians: one eyewitness said he had seen the mangled body of a pregnant Spanish woman who had been raped, then disemboweled by tribesmen. (By contrast, said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
...screens this week and spoke in accented English: "I salute the great American people." CBS conjured up the Duce's shade in Mussolini, a fast-moving half hour on Twentieth Century galvanized by rare images of the living past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
...Rome last April. He found a trove of early footage in Italian archives, but government officials refused to let any of it out of the country. Instead, he dug valuable old clips out of French newsreel files. And, like the bluebird of happiness, the best footage he had seen in Rome turned up in copies back in Manhattan, where a search unearthed a Fascist documentary shot in the late '205 with a script by Benito Mussolini himself...
BERLIN, by Theodor Plievier. The end of Hitler, Berlin and Germany, seen in a flaming novel that has the hallucinatory quality of a firelit death dance. The last book of a trilogy (Stalingrad and Moscow were the other two) that, collectively, tops the fiction of World...