Word: underground
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people of Lebanon have risen as one man against imperialism," shrilled Nasser's Radio Damascus. Said Radio Moscow: "The Lebanese people have had enough of the American system." In Tripoli Communists and other underground forces won control of the mobs. Saboteurs blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, forcing the company to pump its oil through a branch line in Syria. At the Syrian border, customs guards stopped a suspiciously sagging Chevrolet sedan driven by Louis...
About 45 minutes after Sunday midnight, a reporter at Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union snatched up a noisy phone, heard a man identify himself in pine-soft accent as a member of the "Confederate Underground." He had just blasted the Jewish Center and a Negro school, he bragged, and bombings would continue until segregation is restored everywhere in the South...
...Oberg to Paris with orders to get tough. Oberg did. In the next two years as head of the Nazi security police in France, Oberg and his eagle-beaked adjutant, SS Colonel Helmuth Knochen, were responsible for the execution of more than 1,000 French hostages, the execution of underground resistance fighters at Mont Valérien and at the Cascade in Paris' beautiful park, the Bois de Boulogne, the extermination of hundreds of the Maquis, the destruction of the old port of Marseille, the deportation of the faculty of the University of Strasbourg, and the deportation from France...
BUILDER William Zeckendorf will get $22.5 million loan from Prudential Insurance Co. for his Courthouse Square project to cover two blocks in Denver. He has put up a four-floor department store, by next year will complete a 21-story, 1,000-room hotel with 2,000 underground parking spaces...
During the war Joel Brand, now 52, was a leader of a Jewish underground group in Hungary whose purpose was quite simply to help Jews to stay alive. There were other such groups; Brand's was called the Waada Ezra we Hazalah, a Zionist group to whom the age-old dream of return to Palestine had been converted by the Hitler terror into life-or-death urgency...