Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon it is time for the Bon Beurre to butter up a new power. A good year before war's end, the Poissonards are tactfully praising DeGaulle in public, and Charles-Hubert becomes a hero of the Resistance when he betrays a timid little German friend to the underground, all the while kicking him in the shins and shouting, "Dirty Boche...
...Enslaved. Author Hobart in her novel tells how two men slip ashore on the China coast to be guided by the anti-Communist underground into Shanghai. One is David Conway, Chinese-born U.S. businessman doggedly intent on rescuing a young American trapped by the Communists. The other is Mu San, whose father, a wealthy Hong Kong refugee, sent him to help Conway's desperate mission...
...years of painstaking work had gone, lay defeated and discredited. "I do not understand how it happened," muttered one Andhra Communist, a gaunt man with curly hair, whose job it had been to subvert the untouchables. "The stupid, dumb, illiterate masses have let us down. We should go underground and recommence our violent struggle...
Private Matter. When royalty goes nightclubbing, the word occasionally leaks out through a complex underground of waiters, doormen and band members. But any photographer who is sent to the scene is met at the door of the nightclub and turned away by a royal detective. Once a news photographer got a picture of six-year-old Prince Charles on his way to a cousin's birthday party. But when the photographer's editor called the palace to get some caption material, he was brusquely informed that the color of the coat was a "private matter...
...House Common Room is a dignified place. You'd hardly expect to walk in on a Sunday afternoon and find a gentleman beating on a conga drum. But there was one there this past Sunday with a dozen or so of this friends from Boston's rapidly-growing jazz underground. All were duly authorized, by the versatile Adams House Music society, for a concert of "Experimental Jazz...