Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Nazis began rounding up the Jews in Amsterdam, Salesman Elias Beekman and his wife, Sara, slipped their 2½-year-old Anna into the underground just in time. Arrested on June 20, 1943, the parents were gassed to death in a concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland on July...
...only a few weeks after the conference at Yalta, a group of 16 Polish underground leaders was invited to Moscow to discuss Russian-occupied Poland's private problems. Carrying with it a Russian general's "word of honor" that its "personal safety is assured," the group headed for Russia. One of the group's leaders was General Leopold Okulicki, who succeeded General Bor as leader of the home underground army that fought the Nazis and then, in a vain bid to stop the transfer of Poland from Nazi to Red rule, harassed the on-moving Red army...
While in Santiago, Einaudi met representatives from the student organization of Argentina (FUA) and these students told him that their group was forced to go underground during the entire last year of Peron's rule. In addition, they said many members of their organization had either been imprisoned or executed in this time. Einaudi, as an NSA representative, was invited to Buenos Aires to learn of the repressive regime for himself...
...known, however, just how many thesis-writing services have operated at the College since 1940, or how many students have used them. Editorial Consultants itself would still be safely underground if it had not placed a small, innocent-looking advertisement in the CRIMSON of last March...
Patty's school would make a name for itself. It was located near some of Alaska's biggest gold, coal and copper mines, and Patty and his students spent as much time underground as in the classroom. They were at first a rough lot. They got into so many tavern brawls that President Bunnell once exclaimed: "They'll be the ruination of us all." Patty replied: "Don't worry, Doctor. You'll be proud of those boys some day." By the time he left to start his own business in 1935 ("I want to practice...