Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overnight (sample laws: farmers were ordered to wear shoes, and officials to kiss their wives before leaving for the office). In 1941 Phibun capitulated to Japan, later declared war on the U.S. and Britain. Old Friend Pridi, who had an anti-Japanese record, became leader of Thailand's underground. When the Japanese left, Pridi became Premier, and Phibun was jailed for a while, then retired until his collaborationist past faded away. When he reappeared on a Bangkok parade ground to fly his kites, Thailanders knew he was back in politics. A 1947 bloodless coup restored him to power, sent...
...parachuted out of a B-36, exploded at 30,000 ft. amid a cluster of other parachutes carrying little metal canisters. Probable purpose: to estimate the effect of an atomic aerial explosion, such as an antiaircraft shell or missile, on the metal parts of bombers. Another blast was exploded underground (TIME, April 4), gouging a mammoth crater and tossing a column of dirt hundreds of feet into the sky. Reportedly, the bomb was no bigger than a suitcase...
...member of Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party, predecessor of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi served briefly in Mussolini's first government in 1922, but rapidly soured on II Duce and was forced out of public life by Mussolini's displeasure. A leader of Italy's underground in World War II, he served as Minister of Industry and Commerce in various governments during the Allied occupation. The Allies found Gronchi a proud and stubborn man. Once when Gronchi protested a law demanded by the Allied Control Commission, an Allied officer banged his fist on the table...
...sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish widow clinging to life by keeping a dried-up Christmas tree by her bedside. Kim joins the Danish underground in the war's last year, is caught and condemned to death...
...calls the "chief executive officer" of the Trib ever since he went to work summers as a photographer on the paper. From the photo staff he went on at the paper to become a mail clerk, reporter and columnist, writing a weekly column ("The Red Underground"). But he made his biggest mark on the business side. Shipped to Paris two years ago to shore up the Trib's Paris edition, he revamped the budget, got more ads and circulation and put it handsomely in the black...