Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widowed mother worked as a concierge to give young Mollet enough schooling to qualify him as a professor of literature. An early and militant Socialist, the young professor was soon fired for political activity, became secretary of the CGT teachers' union. After serving gallantly in the Socialist underground. Mollet caught the eye of the aging Leon Blum, soon was secretary-general of the Socialist Party...
...taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite much open air bureaucracy, engineers are trying to determine the exact location of the break, while workmen continually dig. The search is complicated by high tension wires underground near the break, and "Those things can kill...
...Buried underground, the U.S. has as much "conventional" ammunition as World War II armies fired in Europe. That is quite a stockpile; so Defense Secretary Wilson last week announced that conventional arms orders are being reduced in favor of emphasis on the wonder weapons of the future. To rush work on them, Wilson said he would ask Congress in January for an additional $1 billion-a hike in defense spending from $34.5 billion in the fiscal year 1956, ending June 30, to $35.5 billion in fiscal...
...provided that Ecopetrol will contribute a fourth of the capital investment and Colombia Cities Service Petroleum Corp. (a local subsidiary) the rest. The profits will be split in the same ratio. As is customary, the joint enterprise will pay a royalty to the government, as the owner of the underground...
...West German police last week, John was held in close custody, but Correspondent Bonde-Henriksen had a world scoop. Otto John's story, according to Bonde-Henriksen, was that he had visited Wowo that night to "get some support for a widow of an executed anti-Nazi underground leader," and had been persuaded to go to his other flat in West Berlin ... "I woke up two days later in Karlshorst [Russian army headquarters]. A female doctor was sitting at my bedside and ... I got one injection and later on another, and I didn't feel clear...