Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the United Nations was carrying on diplomatic negotiations for the release of eleven U.S. fliers sentenced by Red China as spies (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the last Canadian war prisoner held by the Chinese Communists was free to shed gloomy light on how his fellow captives were faring in the so-called People's Republic. Squadron Leader Andrew MacKenzie, 34, who was released at the Hong Kong border Dec. 5, told Ottawa newsmen that under stress of 16 months of solitary confinement he had been forced to sign a phony confession that he had flown his U.S. Air Force...
...Poland's Communist government felt differently. First they sent a Polish official in London to see the seven in jail, armed with letters from their relatives. "We had and still have much trouble be cause of you, and the amount of tears we have shed would nearly make a bath for you," wrote one rebel's family. The sailors recognized the letters as having been writ ten under pressure. Dropping all pretense, the Polish government brusquely demanded the sailors extradition...
...trial's snarls of conflicting evidence began to unfold, "and I don't like anyone to make fun of me." "I'll do the talking, Dominici," the chief judge shouted back at him. "You just listen!" Diverting as it was, the trial did little to shed light on Dominici's guilt or innocence. Long before it was done, Goncourt Academy Playwright Armand Salacrou voiced one verdict. "I know," he said, "who is the really guilty party. It is French justice...
...blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth, black belly. For 20 minutes, horse and horse doctor would meditate...
This week the Joint Atomic Energy Committee of Congress will begin considering the Dixon-Yates contract, under which private utilities would build a $107 million steam plant and sell the electric power it produces to the Government. The hearings should shed some light on an issue that so far has generated only political heat. This is the basic Dixon-Yates story, which Administration witnesses will unfold this week...