Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notary he says is implicated in a shut-in woman's statement made Thursday about ballot tampering. The Councillor then will ask the Court to have the outer envelopes of all absentee ballots opened. (This does not reveal the actual ballots, but only a notarized envelope which in turn contains the ballot...
...Numbers. By Western standards, Soviet weddings are not really weddings at all, but a bit of bureaucratic business that young couples must go through at the local bureau of ZAGS, where births, deaths and marriages alike are registered. The couple can turn up in ordinary work clothes, get through the whole ceremony during an everyday lunch hour. "Will you keep your own name or take your husband's?" an official asks the bride, reminding her that if she takes her husband's, she must get a new internal passport within ten days. After that, the couple...
...slipped across the Russian border to organize anti-Soviet resistance. Two years later, when the Wehrmacht attacked Russia, Bandera's partisans fought the retreating Russians and hopefully proclaimed an independent Ukraine. The occupying Nazis scoffed at the idea, and Bandera's men took on the Germans in turn. Tricked into a conference with the Gestapo in 1941, Bandera was arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
...they were disappearing or going straight-those worldly cities that make so glamorous a backdrop for TV thrillers. Now it was the turn of Tangier...
...Turn of the Screw, brilliantly directed by John (Playhouse go) Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman. Actress Bergman ran a shuddering range of emotions, from schoolmotherly affection for two children placed in her care, to sheer terror of two black ghosts that possess the children, to cold determination to fight the dead and save the souls of the living...