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...Muscovite, were not waiting for Moscow to send Russian troops to do their work. With far less aid than the Greek government had from the U.S., they had not only held out in their crags but had grown in numbers and vigor. In two years they had multiplied tenfold. They had raided and ravaged, living a hard mountain life unsolaced by Athenian cafés. A motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their...
...hatred of our foe grow cold even if he has been hanged. Let it continue to rage with a tenfold fury . . . towards those who have not yet satisfied their lust for profits derived from the blood of millions and who, in their satanic and blind folly, are preparing a new war for suffering humanity. . . . The time will surely come for their inevitable death by hanging. . . . Let our indestructible hatred of them continue. It will come in handy at the right moment...
...question mark that hovers perpetually over any heiress has never left Lilibet. Since she was first able to blow a kiss from her cradle, Britain's cooing matchmakers have been at work on her. When the Princess took to nightclubbing, the speculation, abetted by trigger-fingered columnists, increased tenfold, until any sleek young lord seen dancing twice with Lilibet was a marked man. Since she seldom sits one out (she is a gifted and tireless dancer), the field was enormous. But during the last year it has narrowed to a single contestant: a well-scrubbed, curly-haired lieutenant...
Died. Admiral Russell Randolph Waesche (rhymes with "may she"), 60, the Coast Guard's commandant (1936-45) and first full admiral, who saw his "Hooligan Navy" multiply more than tenfold and become a powerful auxiliary of World War II invasion forces; of a heart ailment; in Bethesda...
Zeckendorf, who has helped to expand the assets of his firm tenfold in the last eight years, likes to dismiss his many big operations (in hotels, theaters, apartments, oil wells, piers, night clubs, a small railroad, and smaller shopping centers) as "making grapefruit out of lemons." This grapefruit, which he hopes to pluck by 1948, would be his juiciest...