Word: sos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morning last week, in the little town of Sosúa (pop. 10,000) on the Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio...
...Share Happily and Reap Endlessly) and TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). Unionists support COPE (Committee on Political Education). Negroes support CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). In Little Rock, moderates stayed on the school board through STOP (Stop This Outrageous Purge). In New Orleans, they faced up to integration with SOS (Save Our Schools). In Atlanta this fall, moderates will do likewise through HOPE (Help Our Public Education) and OASIS (Organizations Assisting Schools in September)-if they can outwit GUTS (Georgians Unwilling to Surrender...
Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley sent an SOS for Wilson last January after a small-bore burglar gave convincing evidence of his year of crime collaboration with ten Chicago cops (TIME, Feb. 1). This evidence, on top of everything else, gave Democrat Daley the worst political rocking of his five years in office, prompted him to demote his police commissioner. To California's Wilson and a blue-ribbon citizens' committee, Mayor Daley gave a sweeping order: Find the best police superintendent in the country. Last week, after interviewing no fewer than 37 candidates, the committee...
Lemp fired four torpedoes. One hit. It took 112 lives, including 16 children and 69 women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...
...leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...