Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that such faith and courage can be stamped out. Mikolajczyk was a brave man, but the Communists chased him from Poland. Benes, who stood up to Hitler, was a brave man, but the Communists broke him. Petkoff was a brave man, but they shot him. If the Communist terror machine keeps rolling over Europe and Asia, erasing faith in freedom, the Reds will be strong enough to fight a war with the U.S.; they may be strong enough to win it. If the Communists should get control of Europe and China and hold them, they might beat...
Most Americans had all but forgotten Nürnberg, but its machinery of justice still ground on. The men now on trial were, in a sense, more important than the great and obvious evildoers sentenced earlier. They were men who had never, with their own hands, fired a shot or beaten a Jew. But they were as indispensable to the totalitarian state as the soldier, the policeman and the executioner. They were the plodding men with the filing-cabinet minds-the bureaucrats...
That is Berialand, the most rapidly expanding power in the world today. It moves in wherever a society decays or falters or listens to fools, and destroys what is left. Patriots like Nikola Petkoff in Bulgaria are shot. Compromisers like Jan Masaryk are driven (by Communist hands or their own despair) through windows. Men like Talich, who can express what the people feel, are silenced. Beria's march will continue until the brains, the dollars, the power, and a reawakened moral force of the West stop...
...trial continued, General Markos Vafiades hurled a. threat over the rebel radio. Unless the Salonika prisoners were released, he warned, a group of captured Greek army officers would be shot...
Then comes a schoolroom shot, of a class about to be shown a movie. The film-within-a-film is an animated cartoon done by two ex-Disney artists-with no Disney gags. It explains the processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...