Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Czech political refugee has just sent us a letter telling of the continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
...four times a week, depending on the availability of newsprint and a printing plant. Halla wrote articles, many of them based on "Voice of America" broadcasts which the editors were able to get despite Russian jamming; he also translated the news in TIME. "It was one magazine that was still free, democratic," he said...
...events of deepest portent reverberated in the news. One was the still undigested fact of Russia's atomic bomb. The other was the shutdown in coal and steel, foundations of the nation's industry and its economic wellbeing. But the U.S., which had often been accused of reacting too violently to disturbing news, seemed to be accepting both events with almost studied indifference...
Hearing that the job was still open a week ago Thursday, Roberts tried to get it. He charged that James MacFarland, Whouley's manager, told him that the only job available was from 12 midnight to 2 a.m. Hazen's closes at midnight and Whouley admitted yesterday that there never was a midnight to 2 a.m. position in his restaurant...
...restaurant "gave me a run-around at first," Chi went on, "but finally Whouley said the only job open was a full time one. Later on, I found out that the part-time job was still open...