Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That night, Freedom delegates wearing borrowed credentials enter the covention by "Underground Railway"--once they reach the Mississippi sector, they remove the badges, which are then taken outside and used to bring in more delegtes. A crush of reporters keep the sargeants-at-arms away...
That night, Freedom delegates wearing borrowed credentials enter the convention by "Underground Railway"--once they reach the Mississippi sector, they remove the badges, which are then taken outside and used to bring in more delegates. A crush of reporters keep the sargeants-at-arms away...
...children and youths who resisted the Nazis. Helmut Huebener, 17, was guillotined for writing some 20 pamphlets denouncing the Nazi destruction of Warsaw and Rotterdam. Hans and Sophie Scholl, a handsome brother and sister who seemed outwardly to be the outdoor-loving prototypes of Hitler youth, organized an underground at the University of Munich. Under the romantic name of the White Rose, they authored pamphlets eloquently attacking the regime. After one particular Nazi outrage, they openly distributed the leaflets around the university, even scattered them from rooftops in the vain hope of inspiring an uprising. Agents of the dread Gestapo...
...government. The Civil War, cutting off a rich flowering of painting and sculpture, turned Picasso into a rebellious exile in France, Dali into a Franco sympathizer, Miró into a resister who stood his ground on Spanish soil. Until 1958, art and the government fought a wary underground war, and the world wondered whether the Spanish art had ended in 1937 with Picasso's Guernica...
...underground trade has become a significant adjunct to the $3 billion-a-year above-board trade between free and Red Europe. Austria's Interior Minister Franz Olah, whose country ranks as the No. 1 clandestine exporter, recently pleaded with his countrymen to respect the satellites' customs and currency regulations. Since April, 20 Austrians have been arrested in Czechoslovakia on smuggling charges. A Czech court convicted one Austrian couple and an accomplice of making 49 visits to Czechoslovakia to cart in, among other items, 256 nylon coats, 39 transistor radios, 42 pairs of stockings and 22 Ibs. of chocolate...