Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted the new trial to be held in Vermont, where he had spent the summer, and where "the press coverage of the first trial was very limited...
...Western sector of Berlin on a summer morning of 1948, General Lucius Clay cast the die: "We will stay in this city." Clay's fighting faith mounted into the thunder of the airlift. And with their will, Berlin's people tipped the scales of decision; the Russians lifted the blockade when they realized that Berliners would not be intimated...
...systematic theology at Germany's University of Bonn, Barth was one of the first academicians to defy Hitler by refusing to take the oath of loyalty. As a result, he was barred from Germany, where most of his teaching and preaching had been carried on. In the summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after we had sung a psalm or a hymn to cheer us up," competing with the racket of rubble...
...more than a year NBC's University Theater (Sun. 2 p.m.) has been dramatizing important works of modern literature, e.g., Forster's A Passage to India and Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, with casts including such important movie stars as Herbert Marshall and Deborah Kerr. The program was a cultural hit; six U.S. universities have offered home-study courses in conjunction with the show. But it was no big-audience...
This season got off to a bad start when plans for a trip to Stanford failed, through no fault of a committee composed of Borgatti and William J. Reinhardt '45, drum major, who worked all during the past summer and missed their goal by only a small margin...