Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rights Congress which put up $50,000 bail for Gerhardt Eisler and financed the defense on the now convicted top Reds. He asked in 1951 for money to finance cargoes of supplies to send to Communist China. He solicited funds in 1952 for defense of the now convicted "second string" Communists. In all, 62 exhibits were presented to show that Burgum's "conduct coincided with the path of the Communist Party" during the past 20 years...
Then the local Legion post rushed in and added "socialistically and communistically inclined" to the string of descriptions about "Basic Economics." Later, at a hearing on the book, the letter writer admitted that he had not read it, but merely "glanced through" the book's 500 pages...
...husky Axel Springer now owns a string of two newspapers and three magazines, which worries some Germans about his potential political power. This does not worry Springer. Christian Democrats have called him a "pink" Socialist, and the Socialists accuse him of having Christian Democratic tendencies. Grins Springer: "Doesn't that prove independence...
...String Saver. As part of the anniversary celebration, the Ford family also formally opened to historians an amazing collection of personal possessions which Old Henry had gathered at Fair Lane, his huge, grey stone mansion, not far from the Rouge plant. After Mrs. Ford died in 1950, the family sent a crew of archivists to look through the memorabilia stored there. They were astounded by what they found. Some of the 55 rooms in the mansion were so crammed with clocks, rare books, cameras, music boxes, files, unpublished photographs and crates of papers that the doors could hardly be opened...
...Austria. But any similarity between the actual Stalag and its dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks 4?) to out & out slapstick (P.W.s making schnapps out of potato peelings and string, washing socks in a pot of watery soup, lining up at a homemade telescope to gawk at Russian women prisoners taking delousing showers...