Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When British planes arrive over Greece to bomb Nazi submarine bases, there are still hundreds of Greeks who go to the rooftops. There they cheer and sing-and spit down at the despised Italian carabinieri who shoot up at them. On March 25, Greek Independence Day, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens was piled high with flowers during the night...
Farewell Salute. Of all the homefarers, Colonel Norman Fiske, U.S. Military Attache, gave America's classic farewell to Italy. Accompanied by Italian detectives, Colonel Fiske drove into sight of Mussolini's Palazzo Venezia, stopped at the tomb honoring Italy's Unknown Soldier. Before his guards could intervene, Colonel Fiske hopped out of the car, stood smartly at attention and said...
...Silvan, Cowslip or Primrose Path, which, flanked by lovely bushes and protruding feet, wind down to the most respectable part of the cemetery. Here, beside one of the five artificial ponds, one may inspect the mausoleums of prominent Bostonians. The Cabots have an aperture in the roof of their tomb through which they may commune with...
Thanks to the wowsers, Sunday in an Australian town, for soldiers who need recreation, is an exercise in breathing the dank air of a tomb. There are no movie shows, because places where people pay an admission fee are classed as "disorderly houses." There are no dances, few open restaurants where a man can buy himself and girl a cup of coffee, nothing but churches and sedate fun at home. Even window shopping is out. The windows are all sandbagged...
...Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...