Word: terming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produce into a quick cash profit. Then he returns the land to his sheep. Berlingieri's tenants can do no better; generation after generation they have worked their fields only on three-year leases, had to face expulsion from the land at the end of each three-year term at the owner's will. They never dared to invest years of labor improving a soil whose yield might not be theirs...
...stiffest term-20 years at hard labor-went to 55-year-old Arseny Bore-movich, who admitted that he was "slightly guilty": he had done a bit of spying for Moscow, and during the war had sentenced 24 Yugoslav partisans to death while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia's pro-fascist Ustashi courts. The Russian Orthodox priest, Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only...
...everywhere the same, but the mass of people, failing to find a difference between a democratic and a totalitarian army, give up the puzzle altogether. Quoting Grace again, "The most effective method of establishing a society based on the democratic ideal is to abandon the use of the term as such, and, by practice and precept, lead the German people to accept this ideal...
...editors will take over at the beginning of the Spring Term...
...officers' term begins in February...