Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial is expected to take place the end of this month in Sofia's massive grey stone Palace of Justice on the Boulevard Stalin. Remarked one observer of Communist methods: "The confessions will be read and each witness will be asked if he said that. The movies will be there. They will make this thing a big spectacle...
Barnard College for women, the poor, proud relation of Columbia University (endowment: $75 million) was out to improve its financial lot. Barnard, whose red brick buildings of institutional classic stand along Manhattan's upper Broadway, only a stone's throw from Columbia's city campus, has an academic reputation which only such women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr can equal, and a faculty (borrowing from Columbia's) that most others cannot. But last year, asking no more tuition ($700) than most other top schools, Barnard (endowment: $5,000,000) operated...
...come to you, my people. His fiery eyes do not flash through clouds of incense or from altar candles . . . This new god is not a stone statue worn smooth by the kisses of the faithful-he was not born in heaven . . . The new god is born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls...
...them to the effect that Mattos once became enraged when he was thrown from a horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...
When Acting President Li Tsung-jen sent Dr. Kan Chieh-hou, his U.S.-educated (Wisconsin & Harvard) political adviser, off to Shanghai last week, Li hopefully quoted a proverb: "Absolute sincerity will open metal and stone." It was Dr. Kan's job to pick a delegation to plead with the Reds for peace...