Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algerian border; 2) the inflammatory Cairo radio; 3) the extremist nationalist Algerian movement known as the MTLD (Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties). Leader of the MTLD is Ahmed Messali Hadj, now in exile at Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, but reported in contact with Algerian underground leaders, and suspected of being the hand that set off last week's synchronized violence...
...innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction, he is obliged to hide himself underground like the beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later, Schweitzer mentioned his plan to put all of his prize money ($33,149) into his hospital establishment at Lambaréné, the jungle town that is his home. But, said...
...Giacomo Pellegrini, presently sitting in the Parliament as a Communist Senator, slipped into Italy from France in 1938, was caught almost immediately by the OVRA, saved his skin by offering to spy for Mussolini's police. He betrayed half a dozen underground comrades. This story was told in great detail, with names, dates, places and documentary excerpts...
...filled his life with more activity than most men twice his life wit more activity than most men twice his age. The scion of an old rabbinical family, Taubes worked from 1943 to 1945 with Jesuit priests and the great Protestant theologian, Karl Barth, in a network of underground groups centered in Zurich...
After the armistice, Taubes began his brilliant academic career. He studied first at Zurich and later earned his Ph.D. at Basle under his old underground compatriate, Karl Barth...