Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be wiped out before year's end (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week his prophecy was proved right. From a secret radio station in Communist Rumania, Greece's Communist guerrilla leaders announced that they had had enough. Military operations, said the radio, would cease forthwith, "to avoid total destruction of Greece...
Also among those jailed were 40 more Roman Catholic priests (estimated total of nuns and priests already jailed: 300); they had opposed two bills, steamrollered through Parliament, which made all clergymen employees of the state (at the same time doubling their salaries), and appointed a cabinet minister to "supervise" religion. Archbishop Josef Beran, interned in his palace since June, was quoted by Western diplomats in Prague as saying that the new laws were "treason to the Christian faith." Beran was grieved that some priests had given public support to the bills, had been "bought for Judas coin...
...caught. After rods & reels had been put away, President Auguste Minville of the Union des Pĕcheurs de Paris cheerfully admitted that "because the Seine is the drainage ditch of the world, all fish taken from it are blind, hunchbacked and constipated," in addition to being rather small. Total weight of the afternoon's catch (three minnows): 25 grams (less than an ounce...
...achieve her plan, Persia proposes to spend a total of $650 million, an estimated 35% to 40% of which will be spent abroad. The bulk of the development cash will come from Persian government royalties from the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Anglo-Iranian last year paid Persia some $35 million in royalties, but a new pipeline to be built from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to Tripoli in Lebanon, under a deal between Anglo-Iranian, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum, is expected to let Anglo-Iranian boost output and raise royalties to as much as $50 million next...
...gentlemen. Chomping their chaw-packed jaws and deluging her skirts with a running fire of mis-spits, they haw-hawed at the Royal Navy, punched King George in the snoot and tossed Britain (as Cincinnati tossed its garbage) out into the street. When Mrs. Trollope gently hinted at the "total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America"), or she met the fierce retort: "Our manners are very good manners, and we don't wish any changes from...