Word: torches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Olympic torch, in 1936, was carried by a succession of more than 3,000 runners from Olympia to Berlin. This week the roads to Berlin were somewhat more difficult to traverse than those of ancient Greece...
During the Olympic Games of antiquity, the bellicose cities of ancient Greece invariably observed a "sacred truce." This week Greek guerrillas had cut the relay route of the Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the opening of the games at London on July 29. Instead, the torch could be carried a mere 20 miles to the nearest port, whence a British destroyer would take it to Bari, Italy, for the long relay through five countries to the English Channel...
...winter of 1943 and summoned the entire population (about 2,000) to the main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...
Secret of Success. The torch which had set the fire was Harold Stassen's own relentless campaigning. In the last month before the election, while Dewey and MacArthur remained aloof in their own headquarters, Stassen had raced back & forth across Wisconsin, making at least 35 major speeches, holding countless cracker-barrel discussions at every Wisconsin crossroads...
...Torch of Learning. In Matthews, Ind., High-School Teacher Hobart Black was fired for waking up somnolent students by giving them the hotfoot...