Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero crosses to Manhattan in a rowboat with an outboard motor, wanders half insane with loneliness and terror through the enormous canceled city. "I'm alive!" he screams, "I'm alive!" But by this time he has lost all hope that anybody else is. He takes up residence in a pleasant apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, begins to make the best of his mournful immense inheritance of culture and convenience...
...mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt has duties no ordinary mayor has-protocol responsibilities as the head of a quasi-autonomous state, and the responsibility for liaison with Allied commanders in the city. He also has a unique set of problems. According to East German officials, some 48 Western "terror," espionage and propaganda organizations operate out of West Berlin. Inevitably, their endless, shadowy war with the 60,000 Communist agents operating out of East Germany creates clamorous incidents in West Berlin, exposes the city to endless complaints from Moscow. Willy, like most Berliners, has come to regard some of the underground...
...later happiness; he toils now for the sake of later satisfaction; he doesn't wrangle with others whose lot is better; in times of adversity he can straighten up and carry on; he has the greatest determination and a stature that riches cannot corrupt, poverty cannot change and terror cannot surmount...
...Executions, a prime instrument of terror, went on. Schoolteacher Olga Herrera Marcos, charged with squealing on rebels, may become the first woman "war criminal" to face a firing squad. Her death sentence has been appealed. Four former soldiers, sentenced to prison terms by the trial court, were sentenced to death upon "appeal" by the government. Death toll...
...power. It seemed wasted money last season, when Demeter, a right-handed batter, hit a sickly .189 for Los Angeles in 43 games with only five home runs, eight runs batted in. But this year the beefed-up (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) Demeter is suddenly a slugging terror, in his first ten games had six homers...